Headed to the gym before the start of the King’s game Monday night, Sacramento State student Joti Dhillon got a little too close to the landscaping at PHA, an architecture firm at 1730 I street – she and her car ended up in it.

“Did you catch that the (other driver) left his license plate on the ground before he decided to drive away,” said Karen Cooper of PHA. “I’m lucky. That poor girl’s car almost ended up in my office.”

A late model, blue, American sedan – possibly a Ford broad-sided Dhillon in the tan BMW she was driving.

Knocked out of control, the car cleared a sidewalk and lodged on some decorative boulders.

The African-American male driver and his car remain unidentified other than by 4SPP565, the license plate number of the car he was driving.

The car Dhillon was driving belonged to a friend, Brandon Gatdula, who are both are seniors in communications studies at CSUS.

Dhillon was headed west on I street when the sedan tried to cross I, a one way thoroughfare, at 18th street.

“He never really stopped. He rolled out into the lane. Then he just gunned it and tried to beat me,” said Dhillon.

Blue paint trailed down the entire side of her car.

Gatdula who lives only blocks away arrived quickly after the crash and tried to comfort his friend.

Hit and run can carry a penalty of up to a year in prison, said Sergeant Codog of the Sacramento City Police Department.

He was on the scene to coordinate and effort to locate the car and its driver.

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