Cyclist solves own hit-and-run accident

AUSTIN, TEXAS (KXAN)--An Austin woman has solved her own hit-and-run accident.

Carrie Miller was hit while riding her bike on Guadalupe on March 29. The other driver didn't stop, and the case looked unsolveable. Miller was knocked off of her bike by the passenger side mirror of the car.

"A piece of plastic bounded off on impact and I only picked it up because I thought it might be part of my bike," Miller said.

She realized the next day the piece of plastic was part of the side mirror of the car that hit her.

"I had started to obsess about looking at sideview mirrors on the random chance that I would see it," she said.

Two days later, Carrie was walking up the stairs at her apartment complex when she spotted a car with a broken side mirror.

"I just looked down and saw it and just ran up and grabbed the part." 

The piece of plastic she took from the scene fit perfectly around the broken mirror.

"So I guess we were both on the way home that night."

After knocking on a few doors, Carrie found the driver of the car. Turns out, Justin Dloski, 27, lived just a few doors down.

"I really wanted to find the person," said Miller. "I didn't expect to find the person in my apartment building."

Justin Dloski is charged with one felony count of failure to stop and render aid. According to his arrest warrant, Dloski told police he thought he hit a squirrel that night.  He later admitted he hit something larger.