Evil old broad Helen Fettes
2231. Indianapolis. Jan. 18. 15-year-old boy riding a bicycle injured when struck by an SUV and then a white Dodge Neon with a spoiler on the back, the second of which fled the scene.
2232. Oklahoma City, Okla. Jan. 17. 50-year-old man struck and killed by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
2233. Lodi, NJ. Jan. 17. 18-year-old man injured when struck by a gold-colored car which fled the scene.
2234-35. Boaz, Ala. Jan. 17. 25-year-old and 24-year-old injured when struck from behind by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene; one treated and released, the other in critical condition in the neuro-intensive care unit.
2236. Milwaukee, Wisc. Jan. 18. 58-year-old woman struck by three vehicles, the first of which fled, and killed.
2237. Columbia, Mo. Jan. 19. 37-year-old man suffered a serious leg injury after a gray Subaru, with damage on the passenger side from the front headlight to the door, struck him and fled. (Update: Arrest)
2238. Schenectady, NY. Jan. 19. 8-year-old girl escaped serious injury after being struck by a sedan which fled the scene.
2239. Windham, Maine. Jan. 20. 10-year-old girl injured when struck by the sideview mirror of a black Chevrolet truck with a red Boss-brand v-shaped plow, which fled the scene.
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The accident left the Jonesboro teenager [Maurice Freeman] with a broken skull and blood around his brain, a broken back, broken pelvis, broken tailbone and a lacerated kidney. Despite the horrific injuries, Freeman has made substantial progress, moving from a walker to crutches to one crutch. At a glance, there’s little to show the trauma he’s endured except for a slight limp and occasional stumbling when he’s not on his crutch.
“He’s a walking miracle,” said Dody Deavours, clinic director at Rehab South.
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A 19-year-old man who is accused of fleeing a traffic accident while driving drunk was chased down by a passing motorist Sunday morning before being arrested at an elementary school, Tulsa police said.
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A Chicago police officer accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 13-year-old boy received preferential treatment from investigators who drove the off-duty officer to a restroom, delayed field-sobriety tests and overlooked key evidence that he was intoxicated, prosecutors said Tuesday in closing arguments.
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Via e-mail, Breen family friend Larry Feyerherm points out that the Justice For Jenna Facebook page has now registered over 1,000 likes — evidence of Jenna’s impact on friends and family, as well as support for the site’s original cause. Feyerherm launched it with the blessing of Jenna’s mom, Gail Parrish, in part to demand higher bail for Nguyen, and bond was subsequently upped to $250,000.
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OLMSTED TOWNSHIP, OH (WOIO) – – The elderly woman charged in a deadly hit & run accident went before a judge on Tuesday morning. 80-year-old Helen Fettes pleaded not guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide, failure to stop after an accident and tampering with evidence charges.
The Olmsted Falls grandmother is accused of hitting 13-year-old Charles Kho with her vehicle in the area of Cook Road on October 17th. Kho was flown to MetroHealth Medical Center. He died the next day, on his birthday.
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Ashton Cerka hugged his mother Tuesday morning after the man who put him in a wheelchair was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Christopher Thomas pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and failure to stop and render aid in connection with the January 2011 hit-and-run in the Depot District that left Cerka in a coma, to be followed by gruelling rehabilitation.
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A routine exchange of information could have prevented all the craziness that followed. But after a night of drinking, three off-duty cops crammed into a two-seat Corvette kept going until their crash-damaged car stalled out — just far enough away from the accident to justify the words hit-and-run.
Two years later, it has blown up into a seriously skewed small-town scandal that has dragged in the L.A. County Sheriff and the district attorney, cost the three cops their jobs and cost Manhattan Beach taxpayers more than half a million dollars.
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PORTLAND, Ore. – Police arrested a 53-year-old man Wednesday who they say hit and killed a woman in October 2011 and left the scene of the accident.
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“His leg was bent in a way it should not be bent,” said Ninkovic. “There was an ungodly amount of blood. And it look like one of the worst things I’ve ever seen.”
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[S]even months after a biker was seriously injured in a hit-and-run in Glen Burnie, police say they have used DNA to connect the cyclist and the car that reportedly fled. They have charged the car owner in connection with the case.
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Colorado Springs police said they arrested a suspected hit-and-run driver after his car caught fire on Friday morning.
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A 54-year-old hit-and-run victim from earlier this month on the West Side died Thursday afternoon, authorities said.
Darryl Lincoln, of the 7400 block of South Coles Avenue, was walking south on Francisco Avenue when he was struck by a minivan as he was crossing Jackson Boulevard about 5 p.m. Jan. 9, according to Chicago police.
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Rome police found cocaine in a vehicle that was suspected in a hit and run early this morning and arrested four people, according to Floyd County Jail reports.
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A Lansdale mother of three was arrested and charged with child endangerment last Sunday after two of her children, aged five and eight, wandered into a Kulpsville restaurant, hungry and begging for a drink.On Wednesday, the woman was arrested again and taken into custody in connection with a hit-and-run accident Monday in Lansdale. She was being held in the Montgomery County prison on $25,000 bail, on DUI and other charges.
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Police are looking for the hit and run driver who ran over a Des Moines man last Sunday and just left him on the side of the road. “When I do have kids I’m not going to be able to play football, baseball, and who knows how, with all this metal in my leg, how the winters are going to treat me.” says Curtis Kling from his hospital bed at Mercy Medical Center.
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