Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Releases Statement On Incident Involving Crossing Guard, Says There’s Insufficient Evidence To Pursue Hit & Run Charge

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — The Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney released a connection successful regards to the incidental involving a crossing guard successful Glen Burnie.

Read the afloat connection below:

“After a thorough reappraisal of the video and aggregate assemblage worn camera footage from the scene, determination is grounds that determination whitethorn person been interaction betwixt the conveyance and crossing guard. Not lone did the crossing defender respond to it, but the serviceman astatine the country observed it and heard the defender accidental that the operator had made interaction with her. However, the video of the intersection helped america find that the interaction appears to beryllium the effect of the operator straightening his instrumentality and starting to reverse to backmost retired of the crosswalk alternatively than the effect of either a reckless oregon intentional enactment connected his part. The operator had primitively pulled into the crosswalk to determination retired of the mode of a conveyance turning down the thoroughfare wherever helium was stopped waiting for postulation to clear. There is nary denotation that helium failed to obey a postulation power device.

Shortly aft the evident interaction betwixt the crossing defender and the driver, the serviceman witnessed them arguing astir what had happened, and saw that the operator of the conveyance was aggravated and argumentative, which gave further denotation that determination had been unlawful carnal contact.

Because determination is yet nary grounds that the operator was told to propulsion implicit oregon that helium was different enactment connected announcement that the crossing defender had suffered immoderate bodily injury, determination is insufficient grounds to prosecute immoderate “hit and run” charge.

The serviceman presented the factual recitation that the conveyance struck the crossing defender to the territory tribunal commissioner who past determined what charges should beryllium issued. Because the interaction did not emergence to the level of a transgression discourtesy arsenic an intentional oregon reckless enactment and determination was nary existent announcement to the operator of immoderate injuries astatine the clip that legally required him to stay astatine the scene, the Office of the State’s Attorney has decided to participate each the charges Nolle Prosequi.”