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10 Year Old Girl Died from a Hit-and-Run Accident

By Ben Glass

p /p pA 14-hour manhunt ended on August 22 when a man from Fairfax County surrendered to Maryland State Police and was charged in a hit-and-run accident in which a 10-year-old Montgomery County girl died from the personal injuries she sustained./p p /p pShortly before midnight on August 21, 32-year-old Michael Eaton was driving his Range Rover at a high rate of speed on a suspended license when he collided with a Jeep Cherokee carrying a family of four on Interstate 270. The crash took the life of Jasmine Warr and left her parents and an 11-year-old girl with personal injuries./p p /p pAccording to police, Eaton continued driving for nearly a mile before he abandoned the Range Rover and fled on foot. At approximately 2:30 p.m. on August 22, he turned himself in to the state police barracks in Rockville, Maryland./p p /p pEaton was charged with felony hit-and-run and according to Sgt. Michael Brennan, he was cooperating with the police./p p /p pAccording to Brennan, at the time of the crash, Eaton was driving on a suspended Virginia driverrsquo;s license, but when the suspension was ordered and what the offense was, was unclear. According to court records, in October it was suspended for six months for reckless driving./p p /p pAll four of the Jeep Cherokeersquo;s passengers transported to hospitals. Jasmine received transport to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital and was pronounced dead at approximately 1 a.m. on August 22. Her parents, 53-year-old William Warr and 45-year-old Angela Warr received transport to Suburban Hospital in Betheseda, Maryland with non-life-threatening injuries./p p /p pThe other girl, 11-year-old Cortavia Harris, received air transport to Childrenrsquo;s National Medical Center, but has since been listed in stable condition. According to police, her legal guardians are William and Angela Warr./p p /pa href="http://northernvirginia.injuryboard.com/automobile-accidents/10-year-old-girl-died-from-a-hitandrun-accident.aspx?googleid=247390"Originally posted/a at a href="http://www.InjuryBoard.com"InjuryBoard/a by a href="http://www.injuryboard.com/member-profiles/Ben-Glass"Ben Glass/a

Full post as published by Northern Virginia Personal Injury Lawyer on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).