The Columbia Police Department responded to a hit and run 3-vehicle collision on Jamestown Street in Columbia on Monday evening, July 22, 2019.
Cheyayne Coffey, 25, of Columbia, KY had stopped her 2013 GMC Terrain, waiting to turn on Montgomery Street, when a 1996 Toyota Corolla failed to stop and made contact with a 2008 Ford Fusion, operated by Brandon Bair, 18, also of Columbia, KY who was stopped behind Cheyayne Coffey. The impact sent Bair's vehicle into Coffey's, causing damage to both automobiles. The operator of the Corolla did not stop and fled the scene. The Corolla was later located, parked and abandoned, at the Jim Blair Center. Contact was made the same evening with Austin Arnold, 19, of Columbia, KY who was confirmed as the driver at the time of the accident. Arnold was charged with Leaving the Scene of an Accident.