Driver crashes into school fence, leaves behind $10k of damages

Cape Coral Police Department confirm a hit-and-run driver crashed into Gulf Elementary School’s gate, causing $10,000 worth of damage. Now neighbors are concerned a kid could get hit next.

Early Tuesday morning, a car slammed into the school fence, and it wasn’t until morning the school employees noticed the damage.

“Nobody stops here with the stops signs,” said Cape Coral resident Carlos Valhuerdi. “It’s unbelievable.”

Valhuerdi says he wasn’t shocked to hear a car rammed into the elementary school’s fence.

“That fence, you’re going to bend it like it was bent. It was bent pretty bad,” Valhuerdi said.

CCPD confirms the damage of the crash is $10,000, and the driver is more likely going to get away with it.

School officials says surveillance doesn’t show enough to go after the driver.

Valhuerdi sleeps just feet away from where the crash happened.

“It’s murder on this corner here,” Valhuerdi said. “Nobody stops. Everybody goes through it, and I’m talking 40 to 50 mph, going through the stop sign.”

School officials say all the construction and different detours near the school could be behind this hit-and-run.

“They just go right through it, and they don’t really care,” said Cape Coral resident Denise Valdes.

Valdes lives near Gulf Elementary School and believes this crash should be a warning to anyone walking in this area.

“There’s a lot of kids that do walk around here. They do walk to school, and a lot of people with dogs walk around,” Valdes said. “Someone is not paying attention. Someone can get hurt.”

The gate to the school has been fixed, and improved since the crash early Tuesday morning.

Despite costing at least $10,000 to fix the damage, the school district says there’s just not enough evidence to go after who did it.