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Matthew Hartwig<\/p>\n
CCSO<\/p>\n
PORT CHARLOTTE \u2014 A Charlotte County man is charged with leaving the scene of a crash after his pickup hit a electric scooter driven by a juvenile, deputies reported.<\/p>\n
Matthew William Hartwig, 47, of 17 Den Helder Ave., Punta Gorda, was charged with leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, jail records show.<\/p>\n
The crash happened at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday at Midway and Orlando boulevards in Port Charlotte, according to Charlotte County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Tristan Nasky\u2019s report.<\/p>\n
A juvenile told the deputy he had been riding his electric scooter west on the sidewalk along Midway.<\/p>\n
As he was crossing Orlando, \u201ca truck turned in front of him, striking him,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n
The deputy didn\u2019t note any injuries to the juvenile, but stated the scooter had minor damage to its handle, and the juvenile\u2019s helmet had \u201csignificant damage.\u201d<\/p>\n
A witness who had seen the crash followed the truck, a white older-model Ford F-150, to a home on Richter Street.<\/p>\n
The witness, Michael Wemheuer, told 911 operators that he was following the truck. Deputies arrived at the home a few minutes later.<\/p>\n
Wemheuer identified Hartwig. \u201cThe green T-shirt, the hat, the ballcap, yep, that\u2019s him,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n
Deputy Nasky arrived and spoke with Hartwig. He said while driving he \u201cheard a bang,\u201d the report states. He said he looked back, but did not see anything.<\/p>\n
The deputy asked if Hartwig noticed his mirror had fallen off of his truck.<\/p>\n
Hartwig said he didn\u2019t look at his mirror, but \u201cwhen he got home, he noticed his mirror was knocked backward so he went to fix it,\u201d he report states.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when deputies arrived at the home.<\/p>\n
\u201cI observed the passenger side mirror to be completely shattered, shards of glass to be all over the front passenger side window, and a large scrape from the front passenger side door to the rear passenger side quarter panel of the truck,\u201d the deputy reported.<\/p>\n
Hartwig was arrested and booked into the Charlotte County Jail and remained there Thursday with no bond. He was also cited for failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian, the report states.<\/p>\n
He has a criminal arraignment set for Oct. 15 at the Charlotte County Justice Center in Punta Gorda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Hartwig CCSO PORT CHARLOTTE \u2014 A Charlotte County man is charged with leaving the scene of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4250,115],"class_list":["post-416571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416571","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=416571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}