Villager facing difficult recovery after golf cart struck by hit-and-run driver

A Villager is facing a long difficult recovery after being knocked from a golf cart struck by a hit-and-run driver.

Roseanna Diiuro suffered a traumatic brain injury, 14 broken ribs, a broken clavicle, a broken scapula, punctured lungs requiring chest tubes to drain the blood, and other extensive internal trauma in the hit-and-run crash that occurred March 31 in the Village of Hillsborough.

Villager Noreen Nevrly, 75, is facing a felony charge of hit and run as a result of the crash. She remains free on $5,000 bond and has asked a judge for reinstatement of her driving privileges, which have been severely restricted due to the pending charge.

Meanwhile, Roseanna Diiuro and her family are enduring the long, painful process of an uncertain recovery.

She had been at the wheel of the golf cart that day on Hillsborough Trail when it was struck by the white sport utility vehicle later tracked to Nevrly’s home, thanks in large part to witnesses and surveillance from the Village of Hillsborough gate…

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