Hit and run and run
The story of the teen driver who struck and seriously injured 8-year-old Mariah Rogers as she was getting off her school bus last week represents a sad convergence of bad trends:
1. An unlicensed teen driving a vehicle she should not have had access to.
2. The teen also allegedly driving the vehicle while intoxicated.
3. An adult's possible complicity in the teen's access to the PT Cruiser.
4. The teen's total disregard for laws regarding a stopped school bus (a continuing problem among sober adult drivers).
5. The safety challenges facing even properly licensed teen drivers.
To add insult to the injury she caused, the teen driver failed to turn herself in to High Point police.Rachel Denise Jones, 16, of 1308 Leonard Ave. in High Point, is nowhere to be found.
She faces charges of felony hit and run, felony passing a stopped school bus causing serious bodily injury, felony assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, DWI and careless and reckless driving.
Already in police custody are the alleged passenger in the vehicle, Rusandra Lagina Quick, 17, who is charged Friday with felony hit and run and felony accessory after the fact. And the PT Cruiser's owner, Christopher Dixon, 32, who has been charged with accessory after the fact.
Poor choices. Missing adult supervision. And the most innocent of victims.
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