Laura Ross Hunkele killed and alleged hit-and-run driver Lori Lynn Smith arrested following parking lot collision on Bilo Place in Seneca, South Carolina
Coroner releases name of SC woman hit, killed in DUI hit-and-run in Upstate
Addis said the vehicle that hit Hunkele left the scene but was found. Lori Lynn Smith, 66, is charged with felony DUI and hit-and-run with death.
Hit-and-run kills 79-year-old leaving supermarket in South Carolina, coroner says
The woman reportedly was walking to her car when a pickup truck hit her in a Food Lion parking lot. The pedestrian was flown to a hospital, where she died about an hour after the Jan. 31 crash, according to news releases from the S.C. Highway Patrol and the Oconee County Coroner’s Office.
Woman hit, killed while leaving Oconee Co. grocery store
The Oconee County Coroner's Office said a 79-year-old woman was leaving the Food Lion on Bilo Place and walking back to her vehicle when she was struck by a pickup truck around 11:30 a.m.
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