Police seek information on hit-and-run accidents

Delaware State Police continue to investigate separate hit-and-run crashes involving pedestrians, and they are seeking public assistance.

The first incident occurred December 2019 when an unknown vehicle was traveling westbound on Zoar Road west of Fieldwood Drive at 8:11 p.m. and struck 44-year-old Katrina M. Hudson of Millsboro, who was walking in the westbound travel lane of Zoar Road, said Master Cpl. Gary Fournier of the Delaware State Police. The vehicle continued traveling westbound on Zoar Road and fled the scene in an unknown direction, Fournier said. Hudson was pronounced deceased at the collision scene.

There have not been any leads or description of the vehicle involved in this case, he said. 

The second incident occurred at 6:34 a.m., Nov. 5, 2020, when a vehicle traveling eastbound on County Seat Highway, just west of Old Furnace Road, was approaching a slight curve. The pedestrian, 49-year-old Jamal L. Woodlin of Lincoln, was walking eastbound on the shoulder of the roadway as a vehicle approached, Fournier said. The vehicle failed to negotiate the curve in the road and drove onto the shoulder, fatally striking Woodlin with the right front. He was projected down an embankment, landing in a shallow ditch, Fournier said. The vehicle did not stop for the collision.

Through a review of area video surveillance cameras in the area, Fournier said, police determined a white Ford E-Series van may be involved. The vehicle would have right front-area damage, he said. 

The Delaware State Police Collision Reconstruction Unit is asking anyone who has information in reference to these crashes or the vehicles involved to contact Sgt. N. DeMalto at 302-703-3269, or Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333 or delawarecrimestoppers.com.