2008 Woodie Awards
University worker killed after hit by car
CAROLYN CRIST
Issue date: 2/11/08 Section: News
Police are investigating a wreck early Wednesday morning that fatally injured a University worker.
Edward Hull, 20, an East Campus Village Summit dining hall worker, died Thursday evening after a graduate student hit him from behind on Riverbend Parkway just before 6:30 a.m.
Police will consult with the solicitor's office this week to decide if charges will be filed, the Athens Banner-Herald reported.
Police said Hull was walking west uphill to his job from his nearby apartment, wearing dark-colored clothing when he was hit by a westbound SUV driven by Christopher Allen Neal.
Neal was unavailable for comment.
Athens-Clarke County police were called at 6:23 a.m., and officers arrived on the scene four minutes later to begin directing traffic.
A minute later, police told the ambulance to hurry and said Hull was still breathing, but the condition was serious and he was unconscious, according to a the police scanner on scanathens.com.
Forensics was called to the scene at 6:50 a.m., and two minutes later, police divided the eastbound side of Riverbend Road to create two lanes of traffic.
An officer was sent to Hull's mother's home at 7 a.m. to tell her to go to Athens Regional Medical Hospital, and police decided at 7:10 a.m. to complete investigation during the weekend to not block traffic, according to the recording.
"I don't think it's prosecutable. There's little in road evidence," one officer said on the police scanner. "It's flagged and marked for us to come back."
Police continued to direct traffic after 7:30 a.m., and students found out about the accident from various sources.
"I went to talk to office people of my (Riverbend Club) apartment and had a conversation with one of the managers, who had come back from the hospital," said Megan Allen, a sophomore from Marietta.
"She said hospital workers were doing a second set of tests that day to make sure he had no brain activity and were about to pull the plug. It was really surprising because a friend and I had just talked about how many people run on that road."
Police plan to post more 25 mph speed signs in the area, she said.
"There are still orange marks on the road where police marked the crash," said Amanda Brooks, a sophomore from Marietta.
Edward Hull, 20, an East Campus Village Summit dining hall worker, died Thursday evening after a graduate student hit him from behind on Riverbend Parkway just before 6:30 a.m.
Police will consult with the solicitor's office this week to decide if charges will be filed, the Athens Banner-Herald reported.
Police said Hull was walking west uphill to his job from his nearby apartment, wearing dark-colored clothing when he was hit by a westbound SUV driven by Christopher Allen Neal.
Neal was unavailable for comment.
Athens-Clarke County police were called at 6:23 a.m., and officers arrived on the scene four minutes later to begin directing traffic.
A minute later, police told the ambulance to hurry and said Hull was still breathing, but the condition was serious and he was unconscious, according to a the police scanner on scanathens.com.
Forensics was called to the scene at 6:50 a.m., and two minutes later, police divided the eastbound side of Riverbend Road to create two lanes of traffic.
An officer was sent to Hull's mother's home at 7 a.m. to tell her to go to Athens Regional Medical Hospital, and police decided at 7:10 a.m. to complete investigation during the weekend to not block traffic, according to the recording.
"I don't think it's prosecutable. There's little in road evidence," one officer said on the police scanner. "It's flagged and marked for us to come back."
Police continued to direct traffic after 7:30 a.m., and students found out about the accident from various sources.
"I went to talk to office people of my (Riverbend Club) apartment and had a conversation with one of the managers, who had come back from the hospital," said Megan Allen, a sophomore from Marietta.
"She said hospital workers were doing a second set of tests that day to make sure he had no brain activity and were about to pull the plug. It was really surprising because a friend and I had just talked about how many people run on that road."
Police plan to post more 25 mph speed signs in the area, she said.
"There are still orange marks on the road where police marked the crash," said Amanda Brooks, a sophomore from Marietta.
