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March 17, 2008

Driver indicted after teen struck, seriously injured

A South Kingstown woman has been indicted on charges she was driving drunk and "with reckless disregard" when authorities say she struck at high speed a 17-year-old girl who was standing on the Route 1 shoulder last year.

Heidi Harrall, 45, of 24 West Side Road, is named in the indictment handed up Friday on one count of driving under the influence, serious bodily injury resulting, and one count of driving to endanger, personal injury resulting, the state Attorney General's office announced today.

Authorities allege that Harrall's car struck Sylvia Bogusz last June 23 in South Kingstown, seriously injuring Bogusz.

The police have said Harrall was driving at more than 90 mph.
Harrall's Washington County Superior Court arraignment is slated for March 24.

Bogusz was hit after having driven her car with a flat tire onto the shoulder. She put on her emergency lights, got out, walked to the shoulder and made a phone call to her mother.

Harrall was driving Route 1 south when she tried to pass a car, the authorities have said, crossed the yellow line, swerved, lost control, and drove onto the shoulder, where Bogusz stood.

Bogusz was found unconscious and bleeding in Route 1's southbound lane.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with Journal archival reports

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 1:30 PM | Permalink

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