Police searching for driver who struck WRAL employee and ran from scene
Late Friday night, WRAL News learned that a colleague and dear friend was hit on Western Boulevard in Raleigh at the beginning of the winter snow storm.
Posted — UpdatedWRAL News learned late Friday night that our colleague and dear friend Erin Simanskis was the person struck and injured in the incident.
Simanskis, WRAL's weekend assignment editor and 5 On Your Side research assistant was involved in a fender bender on her way home from the newsroom.
As she was standing on the side of the road exchanging information with Danny Ray Person, the other driver involved in the crash, a van struck her – and the van’s driver ran away, leaving the van on the scene.
Person was the driver involved in the fender-bender, not the driver of the van who hit Simanskis and then ran away.
Simanskis was in critical condition for two days and passed away on Wednesday morning.
If you have any information on the driver who hit her and took off, we ask that you please contact the Raleigh Police Department's non-emergency line at 919-831-6311.
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