BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A Mississippi woman has been arrested following a fatal hit-and-run in Louisiana.
Senior Trooper Dustin Dwight with the Louisiana State Police says 59-year-old Albert Watson was driving on Interstate 12 early Sunday morning when his car was hit from behind and thrown off the road by a car driven by 52-year-old Deana Collier of Sandersville, Mississippi. Dwight says Watson was not wearing a seat belt, and died at a hospital.
News outlets report that Collier did not pull over or call 911 after hitting Watson's car. Instead, police say she kept driving for about a quarter-mile (nearly half a kilometer) after the collision.
Authorities say Collier performed poorly on a sobriety test and was charged with vehicular homicide and felony hit-and-run.
It's unclear if Collier has a lawyer.