Chapel Hill Police have arrested a woman in connection with a hit and run involving a pedestrian.
Chapel Hill Police Lieutenant Josh Mecimore says police responded to a report of a pedestrian being struck on Fountain Ridge Road at Highview Drive at 8:25 last Tuesday night.
Maureen Patricia Rogers. Photo via Chapel Hill Police.
The pedestrian was suffering from non-life threatening injuries, according to police, and – after initially refusing – was eventually transported to the hospital for treatment of lacerations.
“There was no suspect vehicle. They fled the scene,” Mecimore says. “And then it looks like the investigating officer had given out a description of the vehicle and the damage that was expected to be on the vehicle and another officer came across that vehicle.”
Mecimore says that officers questioned the suspect when the vehicle was found on Thursday.
“She, at the very least, told him that she thought she’d hit a deer,” Mecimore says.
On Friday, police arrested 58-year-old Maureen Rogers, of Charlesberry Lane, on a felony charge of hit and run. The charge was elevated to a felony level due to the injuries sustained by the pedestrian, according to police.
Rogers appeared before a magistrate and was released on a $3,500 unsecured bon.
She was scheduled to appear in court on Monday morning.
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