Monongalia County Sheriff’s deputies are still searching for a suspect in a hit-and-run involving a pedestrian on Summers School Road in Monongalia County nearly one month ago.
On Jan. 25, Donna Evasko said she was walking along a roadside footpath on Summers School Road that leads to Deckers Creek Trail just below the Eastgate residential community. Something she’s done many times before.
Evasko said she was carrying a tactical flashlight that lights up the whole road because it was around 6:30 p.m. and fairly dark.
“I’m on the straightaway right above the trail when someone comes down off the hill and hits me in the shoulder, sending me flying 5-10 feet,” Evasko recalled.
The impact knocked the wind out of her and she said her nose began bleeding as she hit the ground. All she saw of the vehicle was it pulling away from the scene.
“All I saw was taillights,” she said. “It looked like it was maybe a dark SUV, but I don’t know, I thought I was bleeding to death.”
Evasko said another vehicle stopped to help after seeing her lying on the side of the road, but the suspect was nowhere in sight.
Mon EMS responded to the accident and transported Evasko to the hospital, where she was treated for several severe injuries.
“It resulted in two lacerations on my skull, which I had to have 13 staples, a broken collar bone, which I now have to have surgery on, and six broken ribs on my left side and one on my right,” Evasko said. “I have not been able to get back to work since and I am running out of funds.”
Monongalia County Chief Deputy Mark Ralston said investigators have not received any new information on the incident or a possible suspect, but the investigation is ongoing.
Being that it has been almost a month since the incident, Evasko is feeling some frustration with the lack of information that has come in on the case and is hoping someone will still come forward with something that leads to a possible suspect.
“I wanna get it out there,” she said. “Somebody knows something.”
Anyone with information on the vehicle or driver that may have hit Evasko is asked to contact the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office at 304-291-7260.
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