XENIA — A stolen car was caught on video jumping a curb, tearing through yards, and nearly hitting three little girls in Greene County.
At the dead end of Texas Avenue, the two young men who stole the Kia jumped out of their car, ran to and jumped over a fence, then somehow ran across Route 35 without being hit.
While Greene County deputies continue their search for them, one Xenia mom is still trying to understand how close her daughter and two friends came from having that car blast them.
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“All the sudden we heard the screech and I thought someone had crashed,” said Lori Carbone.
Carbone said at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon, her daughter was playing in front of the house with two other 9-year-old girls.
“We saw a car coming down here on the sidewalk and grass, he went off this way, on two wheels, by the grace of God he didn’t fall back on the sidewalk where our girls were playing,” Carbone said.
The entire ride was captured on two neighbors’ doorbell cameras. You can see and hear how fast everything happened.
The video shows the car on two wheels, and three little girls running back toward the house after the car went past within five feet of them.
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“And how he didn’t flip on his roof I’m still not sure but I just felt like I was in a movie watching slow motion,” Carbone said.
Xenia police took several complaints about someone driving the white Kia and another car at high speeds two streets over.
Greene County deputies are handling the case and said the car may have been stolen in Bellbrook.
Carbone said her daughter and friends usually play in the backyard and play tag right in the path the car cut through the grass. They also do chalk drawings on the sidewalk the car slid across on two wheels.
“I know not everyone believes in God, we believe, we were really blessed yesterday because there were so many factors,” she said.
She said the strangest thing was when that car went past her on two wheels she thought she saw a young man smiling behind the wheel.
Deputies have not announced any arrests in this case.
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