While walking home from football practice last week, three Watertown High School students helped crack a hit-and-run case involving an alleged drunk driver.

The teens, Joel Montoya, Boran Akisik, and Riaz Khan, were walking on Palfrey Street around 9 p.m. Thursday when they saw a black car allegedly run a stop sign and slam into a white delivery car near Pearl Street, according to a Boston 25 report .

The teens said they witnessed the driver, a man, slowly continue traveling ahead, and they attempted to speak to him. The man told the boys he was fine and drove away, though he appeared intoxicated.

“The white car got pushed into the stones of a house,” Khan told the news outlet. “Airbags came off and everything. He probably didn’t think anyone was going to notice. … I got his license

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