An Amazon driver fled after hitting a Castro Valley teenager on a bicycle

CASTRO VALLEY, CA. – AND Castro Valley the couple expressed their outrage on Friday after their 14-year-old son was struck Amazon Delivery Driver who then fled the scene.

“You hit a person. Have you hit someone and don’t have the grace to just do the right thing?” Rosabel Chang asked.

David Mohler, her husband, said: “I would just like some sort of investigation. Like, this is a person who breaks the law.”

Surveillance video shows the couple’s son on a bicycle being hit by an Amazon driver who was backing up on the Castro Valley driveway. To make matters worse, the driver drove off without stopping.

“A person who can hit someone and know they hit someone and get away with it. That person can do it again,” Chang said.

The incident happened around 7:15 a.m. Monday. The video shows the driver getting out of his Toyota RAV4 at a residence near Somerset and Santa Maria avenues in Castro Valley.

The video clearly shows the face of a man delivering Amazon Fresh products to a home’s driveway and pausing to take the requisite photo of proof of delivery.

After the driver got into his car, he reversed and collided with the teenager’s bike as the boy headed to nearby Castro Valley High School. The director even witnessed the blow.

The boy received minor injuries, and the front wheel of his bicycle was torn off.

“He admitted to us, I think he was yelling, like, ‘What the (expletive)’ and the driver never rolled down the window, never got out,” Chang said.

The woman receiving the groceries told KTVU that she tried to stop the fleeing driver after seeing the incident on the Ring camera.

“I saw him start to walk away and I tried to stop him. But he didn’t stop. He just ran,” she said.

Although a California Highway Patrol officer made a report, the Toyota RAV4 did not have a front license plate. Amazon told the CHP it would not release any details without a subpoena.

“It’s like on a silver platter. You can get this information. You can issue a subpoena. Amazon can cough it up, whatever it wants. Parties can work together. But it’s not hidden, is it?’ Chang said.

CHP Officer Kylie Musselman said that while the CHP’s initial report said the case should be closed, investigators are continuing to work with Amazon.

“We expect to be able to get the information we need,” Musselman said. “It shouldn’t be too hard to track down who was driving or who made that delivery.”

Henry Lee is a crime reporter for KTVU. Email Henry at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @henrykleeKTVU and www.facebook.com/henrykleefan