In an 11-count indictment Wednesday, a Chatham County grand jury charged a local woman with a slew of traffic offenses in a May 15 hit-and-run wreck that hospitalized a Tybee Island jogger.
Holly Hatcher, 37, was indicted on four counts of serious injury by vehicle, one count of hit-and-run, three counts of DUI less safe (drugs), and one count each of reckless driving, failure to maintain lane and following too closely.
Jurors accused Hatcher of leaving Susan St. Pierre’s hip and a leg “useless” and causing disfigurement when the truck she was driving on U.S. 80 left the lane of travel near Campbell Avenue and struck St. Pierre, who was jogging.
She’s not accused of doing it maliciously.
Jurors charged that Hatcher had drugs — hydrocodone, alprazolam and promethazine — in her system to a degree that influenced her driving when the wreck occurred at roughly 9:30 a.m.
Hatcher allegedly “knowingly” drove off in her Chevrolet S10 truck after hitting St. Pierre instead of stopping and checking on the injured woman.
Tybee police at the time said Hatcher was arrested later that day on Wilmington Island after being involved in another wreck at Johnny Mercer Boulevard and Bryan Woods Road.