---
title: "Ford Mustang Tears Through Six Other Cars in San Diego Hit-and-Run"
description: "You stay classy, San Diego."
date: "2016-06-17"
modified: "2016-06-17"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/4040/ford-mustang-tears-through-six-other-cars-in-san-diego-hit-and-run"
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tags:
  - "Coupe"
  - "crashes"
  - "Ford"
  - "Mustang"
  - "sports car"
---

# Ford Mustang Tears Through Six Other Cars in San Diego Hit-and-Run

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[A Ford Mustang tore a San Diego neighborhood a new blowhole in the pre-dawn hours of June 16](<https://www.10news.com/news/out-of-control-mustang-leaves-trail-of-crushing-damage-in-paradise-hills>), ripping through yards and taking out six other cars before coming to rest in a heap of metal.

According to police, the black fourth-generation Ford Mustang was speeding around a curve in the Paradise Hills neighborhood of San Diego at around 1:15am on Thursday when it lost control, sending it flying through several driveways and plowing through parked cars before coming to a mangled, torn-up halt.

No one was reported injured in the accident, but the debris trail left behind by the runaway pony car left the neighborhood looking as though a small tornado had passed through.

"Four out of five cars are gone,” one neighborhood resident told San Diego's KGTV 10 News. "We were restoring a 1965 [Plymouth Valiant](<https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/1548/the-mustang-ii-and-8-other-deliciously-ugly-cars>). It’s gone."

Video footage from KGTV reveals other automotive casualties included a BMW Z4, a Dodge Avenger, and a [VW GTI](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/3328/the-volkswagen-gti-r-clubsport-s-just-set-a-n-rburgring-record>).

https://youtube.com/embed/3O9Iudy4HXI

Police are still searching for the Mustang's driver, who residents say beat feet from the scene shortly after the crash.

![giphy617.gif](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/giphy617.gif>)

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

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