Allen Lutrick, 10, killed in Miss. hit-and-run
2029. Oshkosh, Wisc. Nov. 3. 13-year-old girl suffered minor leg injuries when struck by a silver, four-door vehicle that fled the scene.
2030. Prices Corner, Del. Nov. 4. 34-year-old road-crew worker wearing reflective vest and helmet suffers non-life-threatening injuries when struck by a Ford pickup truck which fled the scene.
2031. Wichita, Kan. Nov. 2. 15-year-old boy suffered closed head injury when struck by a white vehicle struck which fled the scene.
2032. Dallas, Texas. Nov. 3. 55-year-old man critically injured when struck by a “maroon, four-door car slammed into him and never stopped. The impact was so severe, police said Priest’s shoe flew off and hit a witness’s car.”
2033. Adrian, Mich. Nov. 3. Man suffers non-life-threatening injuries when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
2034. St. Albans, WV. Nov. 3. 50-year-old man suffers life-threatening head injuries when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
2035. Wilkes Barre, Pa. Nov. 4. 44-year-old man suffers life-threatening injuries when struck by “an older model, domestic made, possibly a Ford, gray with patches of gray primer paint. It is a full-size pickup with an extended cab and has damage to the hood and windshield.”
2036. Upper Darby, Pa. Nov. 5. Pedestrian suffers critical injuries when struck by a dark SUV which fled the scene.
2037. West Columbia, SC. Nov. 5. 53-year-old man fatally struck by a white Chevrolet Camaro SS, thought to be either a 2010 or 2011 model, which fled the scene.
2038. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Nov. 4. Elderly man critically injured when struck by a dark-colored Chevrolet sedan which fled the scene.
2039. Omaha, Neb. Nov. 5. 32-year-old man in electric wheelchair badly injured when struck by unidentified vehicle who fled the scene.
2040. Oak Park, Mich. Nov. 5. 60-year-old man struck and killed by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
2041. Lexington, Ky. Nov. 5. Man in his twenties struck and killed by a dark colored Monte Carlo with “light green neon license plate and lots of front end damage,” the driver of which stopped for a second before taking off.
2042-43. San Antonio, Texas. Nov. 5. Two women injured when struck by a dark colored sedan with a white stripe that fled the scene.
2044. Buffalo, NY. Nov. 5. 17-year-old suffers minor injuries when she was struck by a Jeep which fled the scene.
2045. Providence, RI. Nov. 5. City Councilman suffers minor injuries when struck by a dark-colored Ford Escape SUV which fled the scene.
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Police said Watts surrendered to police Wednesday afternoon. He was initially charged with aggravated assault under Nathan’s Law and leaving the scene of an accident. Nathan’s Law, which is named after Nathan Key, a 5-year-old Jones County boy who was killed in 2009 after he got off a school bus, requires motorists to stay at least 10 feet from a stopped school bus.
Guest said Thursday that he has upgraded the charge against Watts to manslaughter. Guest said Watts’ age may play a role when a grand jury meets to consider the charges against the 82-year-old.
“I’m sure the grand jury will take into consideration all the factors — the age of the victim; the fact that the victim was killed while trying to board a school bus; the age of the defendant; the defendant’s wife, the fact that she’s, what I’ve been told is, terminally ill with cancer,” Guest said.
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A 19-year-old Rider University student has been charged in the hit-and-run death of a Trenton man Friday night, authorities said today. Laura Gallagher, of Flanders in Morris County, allegedly drove the first of two vehicles that struck 54-year-old Carl Wilkins as he crossed Parkside Avenue. Both drivers fled the scene, police said.
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When their paths crossed on St. Paul’s East Side in July, Roger Tetu, 78, was a “man of honor” beloved by his Dayton’s Bluff community, while Gregory J. Larsin, 21, was a felon whose life was “out of control,” a judge said Thursday.
Larsin, driving with a suspended license, passed cars that were waiting for Tetu to cross Earl Street on July 26, and struck and killed him.
For three days, Larsin was on the run, trying to persuade a woman from whom he bought the car to report it stolen. But eventually he surrendered to police. On Thursday, he was sentenced to 7 1/3 years in prison for one count of criminal vehicular homicide.
“You are and continue to be a danger to the community,” Ramsey County District Judge Robyn Millenacker said.
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TOMS RIVER (NJ) — A local lawyer has been indicted on charges that he caused serious bodily injury to a teenager in a hit-and-run accident.
A grand jury on Thursday returned a five-count indictment against John Koufos, 34, of Brick, charging him with aggravated assault, leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident, hindering apprehension or prosecution, witness tampering and obstructing the administration of law.
Koufos’s law firm, Koufos and Norgaard, has offices in New Brunswick and Long Branch. He was named a rising star by a national lawyers’ magazine earlier this year.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – A jury has found Candace Chesnutt guilty of a fatal hit and run accident on Super Bowl Sunday. Prosecutors say she ran over 42-year-old Luis Trevino as she was leaving the parking lot of Paradise Billiards. Chesnutt was arrested in March after her husband says news coverage of the story and called police.
Caught, convicted, court appearance or car-on-car in … Epping, NH; Tyler, Texas; San Antonio, Texas; New Hempstead, NY; Ross Twp., Pa.; Miami; Sacramento, Cal.; Clarksburg, WV.
(San Francisco Chronicle story; video from this linked site)
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