Plainfield, NJ hit-and-run victim Trinity Johnson, 6, still recovering from injuries, prepares to go home.
An ongoing collection of unsolved hit-and-run cases, with a focus on car/pedestrian incidents, from across the country since Jan. ‘010. If you know something about any of these incidents, or one that I’ve missed, do the right thing and call the police, even anonymously.
3544. Poughkeepsie, NY. March 13. 18-year-old woman, a high-school senior, fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
3545. Catonsville, Md. March 15. 62-year-old woman fatally struck by a gold 2001-05 Chevy Impala which fled the scene.
3546. Knoxville, Tenn. March 15. 11-year-old boy injured when struck by a dark sedan which fled the scene.
3547. Puyallup, Wash. March 16. 16-year-old girl injured struck by a white SUV, likely Chevy Tahoe or Suburban, which fled the scene.
3548. Minneapolis, Minn. March 16. 35-year-old man injured when struck by a white or silver passenger car which fled the scene.
3549. Pawtucket, RI. March 16. 67-year-old woman fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
3550. Queens, NY. March 16. 29-year-old man critically injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
3551. Edgemere, Md. March 14. 77-year-old man fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
3552. Green Forest, Ark. March 13. Pedestrian injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
3553. Toledo, Ohio. March 14. 42-year-old man injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
3554. Las Vegas, Nev. March 14. Woman injured when struck by a dark vehicle which fled the scene.
3555. Corpus Christi, Texas. March 16. Bicyclist injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
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Man, I remember what this was like. Good stuff!…
Emily Bowman wrote her name. Well, sort of.
On Thursday, she drew a 3 instead of an E, but when she followed that with an M and I, her parents knew the woman who recently came out of a coma was trying to write her name.
“The therapist handed Emily a white board and a marker, but didn’t say anything and just told us, ‘Let’s see what she does,’” said Dale Bowman, the 19-year-old’s father.
“She wrote a 3 and a perfect M, then an I, and sort of a sloppy L and sort of a Y,” he said. “I was excited, and it shocked the therapist, who said, ‘Emily, you just took 10 steps forward.’”
Debbie Bowman burst into tears when she saw what her daughter wrote in her room at the Shepherd Center for patients with severe brain and spinal injuries in Atlanta.
“When she did the M after the 3, I was like, ‘Oh my God, she is getting ready to write her name,” Emily’s mother said.
And I quote (I)…
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – A man who was struck in a hit and run has died from his injuries. Deputy Coroner Eddie Robinson confirmed Kristopher Caudill died at 8:14 Wednesday morning from multiple blunt force injuries.
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TULSA – Tulsa police are searching for a suspect in an auto-pedestrian accident last November.
On Nov. 19, 2012, police responded to the area near East Pine Street and North New Haven Avenue around 10:45 p.m.
Police say a witness told officers a red Ford pickup struck a pedestrian and continued east on Pine without stopping. The pedestrian was injured and transported to a local hospital.
Police later identified Lazel Siggers as the driver of the hit-and-run vehicle.
A felony warrant was issued for Siggers for leaving the scene of an injury collision. He has a bond of $20,000.
And I quote (III)…
It was three weeks ago this Sunday when a hit-and-run driver struck Trinity as she was crossing the street, dragged her a short distance and then sped away without stopping, causing life-threatening injuries including a lacerated spleen and liver, a badly broken left leg and bruises on her face and lower body.
The driver remains at large, but Trinity is scheduled to go home next Friday, eight days before her seventh birthday, and is expected recover fully in a matter of months.
Not that any of it has been easy.
And I quote (IV)…
BELFAST, Maine — A Knox man was arrested Friday and charged in connection with the hit-and-run accident that sent a Belfast city councilor to the hospital last week.
Steven Lucas, 59, of Knox, was arrested Friday by Brunswick police. He was charged with aggravated leaving the scene of an accident, aggravated operating under the influence, aggravated driving to endanger and operating without a license.
Police initially had arrested Lucas’ daughter, Derri Lucas, 36, of Knox, in connection with the hit-and-run.
Police now believe that Steven Lucas was driving the car last Friday that struck Eric Sanders, 53, who was just feet away from his driveway after finishing a 20-mile bike ride, according to Belfast Police Chief Mike McFadden. The driver of the car then left the scene.
And I quote (V)…
Misty Taylor said, “After we go to court and he’s prosecuted to the fullest, then I’ll feel some comfort. I just have no pity for him…a monster that doesn’t even stop for a little boy because that’s what Christian is, he’s a little boy.”
And I quote (VI)…
BILOXI – A 70-year-old Tennessee man was killed at U.S. 90 and Reynoir Street early Saturday morning in a hit-and-run and a Gulfport man has been accused of his death, authorities said.
The pedestrian’s identity has not been released pending notification of next of kin, Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove said.
The man, who was staying alone at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino, was pronounced dead at the scene from blunt force trauma, he said.
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ELGIN, Ill. (CBS) — Charges have been filed against a North Chicago Police officer, for his role in a fatal hit and run crash. Investigators believe alcohol was a factor in the accident that killed friends Fabian Torres and Joaquin Garcia on Lake Shore Drive early Friday.
Terrell Garrett was charged with two counts of aggravated driving under the influence and two counts of reckless homicide late Saturday afternoon, said Sally Daly, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. A bond hearing is expected Sunday and it is unknown if Garrett will appear because he is under hospital treatment.
And I quote (VIII)…
LINCOLN PARK — An off-duty police officer ran into a suspected hit-and-run driver by chance at a body shop in Melvindale one week after the man had fled the scene of a minor accident.
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The man who police say struck and killed a 2-year-old boy with his car in Key Largo early Tuesday morning is a former Pennsylvania police officer who was convicted in 1996 of conspiracy to rob a drug dealer, as well as 13 other charges.
A jury in Bucks County, Pa. convicted Edward Krajewski in October 1996 and a judge sentenced him to five to 10 years in prison — a sentence that was upheld after a 1998 appeal, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer article. At the time, Krajewski was a 17-year veteran of the Lower Southampton Police Department.
Krajewski entered Pennsylvania state prison on Dec. 4, 1996 and was paroled on March 10, 2002, said Susan Bensinger, deputy press secretary for the state’s Department of Corrections.
According to various press accounts, Krajewski and Joseph DiGirolamo, son of the then-Bensalem, Pa. mayor, planned to rob a Philadelphia drug dealer and a storage locker in the town of Pennsauken, N.J.
Krajewski, an avid scuba diver, was going to use the money to finance a trip to Ecuador to look for lost silver bars dropped from Sir Francis Drakes’ ship in the 16th century.
Caught, convicted, court appearance or car-on-car in … Salisbury Twp., Pa.; Kalamazoo, Mich.; Gaston, NC; Charlotte, NC.
More hit-and-run stories, including every volume of Hit-and-Run America (in reverse order), are accessible from this linked page. (The full Volume-by-Volume list will appear sporadically from now on.)