{"id":274565,"date":"2026-05-17T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274565\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:48:08","slug":"semitruck-driver-hit-several-cars-before-leaving-orlando-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274565\/","title":{"rendered":"Semitruck driver hit several cars before leaving Orlando scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA truck driver was arrested after witnesses said he drove down a residential street in Orlando&#8217;s Parramore neighborhood, hit several cars, and took off. Quana and her husband Craig, were attending a street party Saturday night along McFall Avenue near South Street when it all unfolded.&#8221;We were having a good time, and next thing you know, we heard a bunch of people just screaming like,  &#8216;Stop! Stop! Stop that guy. Catch him! Go get him,'&#8221; Quana said.She shared a video with WESH 2 News of the scene, showing the truck driving past a crowd of people before it can be heard hitting at least one parked vehicle.&#8221;We heard him hitting the first car. Then we heard another car. And then we heard more cars. And then by the time then I wanted to whip out the camera because he looked like he was not stopping at all,&#8221; Quana said.The truck driver, the couple said, did not appear to be in much of a hurry to stop.&#8221;I guess maybe he hit one car and was like, &#8216;Hey, the heck with this. I need to go. I need to run. I need to flee.&#8217; But he was actually about to hit us in the making,&#8221; Quana said.Orlando police arrested 32-year-old Rakeem Williams not too far from the scene, according to a court document obtained by WESH 2 News. He&#8217;s charged with leaving the scene of a crash. He was also given a ticket for hit-and-run involving damage.&#8221;That was a dangerous, serious situation for all of us, honestly,&#8221; Quana said.The couple is still trying to understand why the suspect drove down a narrow residential street in the first place.&#8221;Me being a CDL driver of 10 years, I would have never, ever tried to make that turn on a residential street,&#8221; Craig said.&#8221;He pretty much made him a big, huge mistake,&#8221; Quana said.As of Sunday afternoon, Williams remained in the Orange County jail. WESH 2 News reached out to the company that owns the truck, but has not yet heard back.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A truck driver was arrested after witnesses said he drove down a residential street in Orlando&#8217;s Parramore neighborhood, hit several cars, and took off. <\/p>\n<p>Quana and her husband Craig, were attending a street party Saturday night along McFall Avenue near South Street when it all unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were having a good time, and next thing you know, we heard a bunch of people just screaming like,  &#8216;Stop! Stop! Stop that guy. Catch him! Go get him,'&#8221; Quana said.<\/p>\n<p>She shared a video with WESH 2 News of the scene, showing the truck driving past a crowd of people before it can be heard hitting at least one parked vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We heard him hitting the first car. Then we heard another car. And then we heard more cars. And then by the time then I wanted to whip out the camera because he looked like he was not stopping at all,&#8221; Quana said.<\/p>\n<p>The truck driver, the couple said, did not appear to be in much of a hurry to stop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess maybe he hit one car and was like, &#8216;Hey, the heck with this. I need to go. I need to run. I need to flee.&#8217; But he was actually about to hit us in the making,&#8221; Quana said.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando police arrested 32-year-old Rakeem Williams not too far from the scene, according to a court document obtained by WESH 2 News. He&#8217;s charged with leaving the scene of a crash. He was also given a ticket for hit-and-run involving damage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was a dangerous, serious situation for all of us, honestly,&#8221; Quana said.<\/p>\n<p>The couple is still trying to understand why the suspect drove down a narrow residential street in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Me being a CDL driver of 10 years, I would have never, ever tried to make that turn on a residential street,&#8221; Craig said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He pretty much made him a big, huge mistake,&#8221; Quana said.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday afternoon, Williams remained in the Orange County jail. WESH 2 News reached out to the company that owns the truck, but has not yet heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A truck driver was arrested after witnesses said he drove down a residential street in Orlando&#8217;s Parramore neighborhood,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[117291,109405,117293,117294,115,139,141,140,117288,992,117287,117290,76980,117292,117289,659,918,224],"class_list":["post-274565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-first-car","tag-good-time","tag-husband-craig","tag-mcfall-avenue","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-scene","tag-people","tag-quana","tag-rakeem-williams","tag-residential-street","tag-semitruck-driver","tag-several-car","tag-truck-driver","tag-wesh","tag-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}