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A woman charged with vehicular battery related to a hit and run incident which took place New Year’s Eve will be making her first court appearance 9 a.m. Jan. 29 at the Lincoln County Courthouse in Canton, South Dakota.
Officers with the Canton Police Department reported the accident took place around 10:30 p.m. Dec. 31 on N. Bartlett Street in Canton, where a woman driving a 2018 Ford Edge SUV ran into and damaged a chain link fence outside a home and snapped a wooden telephone pole.
The call came in about 9:56 p.m. that night, according to a crash report from Officer Ray Hunter with the Canton Police Department. Before the police could get to the scene, witnesses stated that the driver left the scene on foot. Officer Hunter arrived on scene when the other passenger in the car clarified the woman had left, saying she walked eastbound.