Report: Car registered to Brandon Spikes involved in possible hit-and-run

A car registered to New England Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes was involved in a possible hit and run on Sunday afternoon. 

The New England Patriots are Super Bowl champions, but they’re also rather consistently consumed by controversy. Brandon Spikes is back with the team after spending last season with the Buffalo Bills, but a recent incident involving his car in Massachusetts is raising eyebrows among law enforcement officials.

According to Mike Reiss from ESPN.com, a car belonging to Spikes was involved in an accident on a strip of I-495 and discovered with front end damage. The car was abandon when police arrived at the scene, and the official report at that time was that the car had struck a deer.

"Shortly before 3:30 a.m. ET Sunday, police responded to a report of a 2011 Mercedes Maybach in the median strip of I-495. Police said they were notified by a representative of the OnStar on-board navigation system that the driver reported hitting a deer."

This isn’t the whole story though, as not far from the scene of Spikes’ abandon car was another car with three passengers who said they were rear-ended by a car they did not see.

While it’s difficult to connect the two vehicles in the same accident, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect dots. That’s a massive assumption though, and there’s no proof that Spikes was even driving the car let alone in the area at the time of the accident.

This is all assuming that the two cars collided at some point, which is still under investigation by state police.

The Patriots released a statement on the incident, saying they were aware of what happened and were looking into what happened.

No further details were made available, but this is something that the Patriots absolutely do not want to deal with after the offseason they’ve had. The real person who should be sweating right now is Spikes, as Massachusetts state law says that fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run carries a maximum of two-years in prison as a penalty.

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