It was easy for Kimberly Freeman to recall the day she was awakened at 2 a.m. by a loud crash.  It was Sept. 5, her birthday.

But when she looked out her window, she didn’t see anything resembling a gift. Instead she saw a black Audi A6 that had crashed right through a stone wall that separates her back yard from a curve where West Evergreen Avenue turns into Navajo Street.

“The car was halfway in my yard,” Freeman said. “I called 911 right away… I was sure whoever was driving was injured.”

But when she got off the phone with the 911 dispatcher, she looked down again to see that the Audi was somehow backing off of the rubble it had left – not to mention a good amount of glass and hardware that had been ripped from the car’s undercarriage. Freeman noted that the driver left his glasses behind, too.

The man stopped at the intersection of Highland and Navajo, a house or so away, but when Kimberly’s husband, William, opened their home’s front door, the man got back in the car and miraculously sped off. The Freeman’s could not make out a license plate number.

Freeman filed a report with a police officer who arrived at her home 50 minutes later, she said. She wondered whether a camera at TD Bank on the corner of Evergreen and Germantown avenues might have caught the car on tape.

Freeman said repairs to the wall might cost as much as $10,000. Fortunately, the accident was late at night, not a time when the Freeman’s children were playing in the yard.

The moral of the story (besides the fact that Audi A6s can take a real beating)?