Leaving her mark

A woman driving through downtown Meridian left her mark – and parts of her car – earlier today.

The incident occurred around 1:30 p.m., when the woman, who was traveling north on 22nd Avenue, hit a tree at the corner of Eighth Street (in front of Percy Bland's campaign headquarters and across from First State Bank), then kept going.

In addition to marks on the tree, the woman – described by an onlooker as a white female driving a black Monte Carlo – left pieces of her car and broke the radiator. A Meridian police officer began following a trail of water up 22nd Avenue in an attempt to locate the woman ... and the rest of her car.

Ida Brown