Hit-and-run victim Lauren Wallace
1872. Mackinaw City, Mich. Sept. 10. 64-year-old man injured when struck by a vehicle that was dark in color and looked similar to a Ford Taurus, that fled.
1873. Mineral Wells, Texas. Sept. 15. 2-year-old girl critically injured when struck by a small gray compact car which fled the scene.
1874-5. Chicago. Sept. 17. Woman, on her 84th birthday, killed and and another woman in extremely critical condition after being struck by a black or dark blue newer-model Ford F-150 pickup truck with a ladder on the bed and a spare tire on the right rear axle. The driver was described as a male wearing dark clothing. He fled the scene.
1876. Kewanee, Ill. Sept. 16. 40-year-old man on a bicycle struck and killed by a gray Chevrolet car which fled.
1877. Utica, NY. Sept. 17. 12-year-old girl suffers major injuries after being struck by a GMC Sierra Pickup truck which fled the scene.
1878. Bronx, NY. Sept. 18. 32-year-old man struck and killed by a white Lincoln Navigator which fled the scene.
1879. Belleville, NJ. Sept. 18. 47-year-old widow of a judge struck and killed by an unidentified vehicle that fled.
1880. Lancaster, Pa. Sept. 18. 77-year-old man suffers serious injuries when struck by a tan- or gold-colored Chrysler Sebring driven by a man in his mid-30s. The car is from the late 1990s to early 2000s, police said.
1881. College Park, Md. Sept. 18. Unidentified man struck and killed by a red Honda which fled.
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Here’s why I’m now a Kevin Conway fan…
Three years ago, college student Melissa Lech was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Joliet. Now her family is teaming up with NASCAR driver Kevin Conway in an effort to track down the person responsible for Melissa’s death.
It was a driver who took Lech’s life. But now another is giving her family hope.
“I don’t think there’s anything you can do to necessarily ease the pain, but I think there’s something, a lot to be said to letting them know what happened that night. There’s so many unanswered questions,” said Conway.
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Accident investigators say Jerry Kishun’s car rear-ended another, possibly a yellow cab, around 4:30 a.m. at the 82nd Street exit. However, police said when he got out, a second car hit him, killed him and left, CBS 2′s Pablo Guzman reported.
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Priscilla Dianne Johnson waived the probable cause hearing, meaning the case will proceed to trial. Johnson, 48, was not in court Thursday.
“She’s very remorseful and very saddened by the whole incident,” her attorney, Angela Dillon, said in an interview with Channel 2 Action News. “On her behalf I would like to express our condolences to the family of the victims.”
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Billy Chambers, who was convicted as a juvenile of the 2008 slaying of Seattle street musician Ed “Tuba Man” McMichael, pleaded guilty Friday to deliberately crashing into a woman’s car.
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A Millcreek Township man pleaded guilty this morning in Erie County Court to a charge stemming from a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of an Erie woman in February.
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Andrew Armstrong struck Mark Enriquez, 14, with his car in 2010. Later that night, Armstrong turned himself in to police and admitted to them that he hit someone with his car and left the scene.
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WATERBURY — A Wolcott man who police say ran over a motorcyclist with a truck and then drove off was spared prison time Friday, but was ordered to wear a GPS monitoring anklet and perform community service.
Although David Ketchum was spared prison time, he still faces a $1 million lawsuit filed by Richard Lucente, who was seriously injured when police say Ketchum crashed into him following an incident at an East End bar.
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Family and friends of a hit-and-run victim gathered Saturday to pass out fliers and raise awareness about the importance of stopping to render aid after an accident.
The rally was to honor 19-year-old Lauren Wallace, who died last September in what authorities suspect was a hit-and-run.
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