Published: March 24, 2008 09:14 am      

Somerset hit-and-runs under investigation

SOMERSET — Somerset Borough police are investigating three hit-and-run incidents.

In one instance, a motorist apparently hit a telephone pole at the intersection of East Church Street and South Kimberly Avenue on an undetermined date. The force of the collision heavily damaged the pole 6 to 7 feet up.

In another case, borough police are looking for someone who crashed into a trailer. A witness told police that he was working on his truck at Bowman’s Truckstop on Laurel Crest Road when he heard a loud bang shortly around 12:15 a.m. March 13 and saw a Fed-Ex truck with a double trailer leaving the area.

Also, borough police have charged a Somerset woman with drunken driving in a hit-and-run incident where a car struck an occupied Somerset residence and sheared a natural gas meter.

Somerset Volunteer Fire Department shut off the natural gas flow at the home along Louther Street after the crash around 5:11 p.m. March 7.

Suspect Melody Holbrook of Somerset was arrested and refused to submit to chemical testing, police said. She has been charged with drunken driving, recklessly endangering another person, criminal mischief, damage to attended property and other charges before District Judge Arthur Cook in Somerset.