Re: 4-year-old killed in hit-and-run accident

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4-year-old killed in hit-and-run accident

http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=99030 & section=localnews

4-year-old killed in hit-and-run accident

COLUMBIA - Authorities are searching for the driver of a hit-in-run that killed a 4-year-old autistic boy early Saturday, South Carolina Highway Patrol officials said.

The accident happened at 4 a.m. about 10 miles north of Columbia, said highway patrol spokesman Trooper McDougald.

The boy, whose name has not been released, apparently left a house and wandered onto the roadway, where the child was struck by an unknown vehicle, McDougald said. A message for the Richland County Coroner's office was not immediately returned Saturday morning.

Authorities collected evidence but McDougald did not release a possible description of a vehicle.

"We're asking anyone in area to please call in with any information. We have found in past cases where people have struck pedestrians and not known it. The driver possibly may not have known," he said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the highway patrol at 803-896-9621.

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