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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
A 91 year old woman Villager was recently sentenced to 5 years in prison for a hit and run accident that seriously injured two bicyclists in 2020 near Morse Blvd in The Villages. After hitting the bicyclists, she got out of her car, saw the people she hit, and then drove home. She was later arrested when she tried to get her car repaired in Gainesville. The judge denied her request to delay serving her term and she was immediately taken into custody. Although it took more than 2 years to get justice, I wish more crimes were handled that way.
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My first thought is that once a person reaches 90, he or she shouldn’t be driving a car. There may be some exceptions, but this woman isn’t one of them. She was trying to get away from a truck and slammed into two bicyclists. Was that poor vision, bad judgement or reflexes, who knows. She says she had hip pain. The real issue is that she saw what happened, got out of her car, then got back in and sped off. No excuse for that.