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Tuesday's Testimonies in Hit-and-Run Trial
Accused fatal hit-and-run driver, 75, hears witnesses testify
The following comes from Carl Hessler Jr., of The Pottstown Mercury: COURTHOUSE — During dramatic and emotional testimony, eyewitnesses to a fatal crash involving a pedestrian called the tragic event “surreal” and shocking as the alleged hit-and-run driver’s trial got under way. “I started saying, ‘Oh my God, Oh my God’ and then she hit her. She somersaulted into the air … and landed on the ground. The car hit her. It all happened rather quickly,” James Harrison of Royersford testified Tuesday in Montgomery County Court, recalling for a jury the 1:34 p.m. April 27, 2011, crash that claimed the life of 26-year-old Kristy L. Bender who was walking along the 1200 block of South Township Line Road in Upper Providence on her way from work to …
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Tim Andrews
2:05 pm on Friday, June 8, 2012
I wonder if she would have stopped if it were her kids or grandkids who she ran over and left to die. more ›