Woman admits to hitting man with car, leaving him in street
EUGENE, Ore. — Police say the driver in a Springfield hit-and-run fatality admitted she found the pedestrian on top of her car when she stopped to check for damage, removed the man and left him in the street.
The police statement was filed in Lane County Circuit Court in the case against the driver’s husband who is charged with tampering with evidence by cleaning off blood and hiding the car.
The Register-Guard reports Isabel McDaniel and her husband Gary McDaniel confessed to an investigator after they were tracked down at their home, two days after the Dec. 11 collision that killed Daniel Ortiz-Reynaga.
Isabel McDaniel has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter. Her lawyer Laura Fine Moro, declined to comment on the police statement and said Gary McDaniel also would not comment.
