On February 26, 2017 at approximately 5:06pm a Worcester County Sheriff’s Office Deputy responded to Racetrack Rd and Ocean Pkwy for a hit and run motor vehicle crash.
Upon arrival the Deputy located a vehicle with damage to the rear passenger side. The passenger of the vehicle sustained neck and back injuries and was taken to Atlantic General Hospital. A broadcast was given and a short time later a Maryland State Trooper located the suspect vehicle abandoned at the end of Beauchamp Rd missing a front left tire.
The vehicle was registered to a Michael Calhoun Gibson, 44 of Berlin, Maryland.
On February 28, 2017 Mr. Gibson came to the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office where the investigating Deputy conducted an interview with him. Based on information learned in the interview Mr. Gibson was charged with traffic citations to include:
Failure to Control Speed to avoid a collision
Negligent Driving
Failure to immediately return and remain on scene of accident involving injury
Fail to return and remain at scene of accident involving attended vehicle
Fail to immediately stop vehicle at scene of accident involving injury
Failure of driver involved in accident to render reasonable assistance to injured person
Fail of driver in bodily injury accident to furnish required ID and License.
Failure of vehicle. Driver involved in accident to give insurance policy information
Driving motor vehicle on highway with metal tires in contact with road
Mr. Gibson was released pending trial.
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BUT NO DUI! It pays to leave the scene of an accident and sober up before turning yourself in. You can even get away with manslaughter if you do that. It was the lesson that Ted Kennedy taught all Americans, so many years ago.
ReplyDeleteNothing in the charges will put him in jail, or even cause him to lose his license. He MAY end up with some civil liability, but that's all. And that's just a maybe, depending on the result of his trial on the charges.
Probably DUI. It wouldn't be his first go around with that. He did time in PA some years ago.
ReplyDeleteprobably a Salisbury elk member
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