'Fess up,' pleads woman after alleged Whitehorse hit-and-run

Denise Tremblay is still shaken and upset after a weekend accident in Whitehorse left her aching, and without a car.

She's also hoping the other driver involved will come forward and identify herself.

"She said she was going to go to the [Kopper King] to use their phone for help, and she never came back," Tremblay said.

"I'm begging her just to come forward, and just come and 'fess up. Accidents happen."

Tremblay said she was driving with her boyfriend in their Toyota Yaris on the Alaska Highway on Saturday evening when a white car approached them from behind, at high speed.

She says the vehicle ended up hitting her rear bumper, forcing her car off the road and into a pole. The air bags deployed and the car filled with smoke, she said.

That's when the driver of the white car returned.

"The lady pulled up and got out, and she asked if we were OK. And I said, 'I think so, but I think my car's on fire.'"

Tremblay's phone wasn't working, and she says the woman said hers wasn't working either. The white car drove off, ostensibly to call for help, while Tremblay and her boyfriend waited. And waited.

At a loss

Eventually they realized the woman wasn't coming back.

They later phoned the police, but didn't have the woman's licence plate number.

Now Tremblay is at a loss. Neither she nor her boyfriend were seriously injured, but she says they both have pain from the impact. What's worse is that her car was totalled, and she's not sure yet what her insurance policy will cover.

"Me and my boyfriend built our life around being able to be mobile. We were the people his family would call when they needed a ride. And now we're those people that are having to figure it out," she said.

"It just doesn't seem fair."