STARKE— A 58-year-old Lawtey woman was sentenced to two years’ probation after pleading to hitting another car with her Ford Mustang and then leaving the scene.
Becky Lynn Reddish pleaded to leaving the scene of an accident involving an injury and DUI.
According to an arrest report, the victim told Lawtey police she was driving westbound at Carter Road and Northeast First Street when the defendant rear-ended her car near the CSX railroad tracks.
“She felt a collision from the rear, which jolted her head and injured her neck, back, and chest,” wrote Officer Robert T. Jordan in the report.
Jordan reported that, according to the victim, Reddish exited her Mustang, walked up to the victim’s car, and declared that the victim’s vehicle was not damaged.
“(The victim) said that Becky returned to her vehicle and then struck (the victim’s) vehicle again in the rear,” the officer wrote, adding that Reddish then swerved onto 301 southbound.
Bradford deputies located Reddish’s Mustang on the Starke Bypass near the State Road 16 exit. Jordan wrote that the defendant had crashed the Ford and appeared to be intoxicated.
Jordan reported that Reddish claimed she checked on the victim after the first collision, but the woman told her to get away from her car, so the 58-year-old left the scene. Reddish also denied striking the vehicle a second time.
