A Texarkana woman accused in a May hit-and-run in Bowie County that cost a man his leg was arrested last week for failure to stop and render aid.
Angela Dawn Cox, 18, is accused of crossing the fog line on Farm to Market Road 559 in the 2500 block as a man was checking his mail several feet from the roadway, according to a probable cause affidavit used to create the following account prepared by Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Jason Green. Cox allegedly struck the man and his mailbox before driving away in her mother's Ford F-150 without stopping or returning to the scene.
According to officials with the Bowie County District Attorney's Office, the man suffered serious injuries including the loss of a leg. Evidence collected at the site of the collision led investigators to conclude the vehicle involved was a Ford. The following day, the Ford truck investigators believe Cox was driving when she allegedly struck the man was located at Twin City Collision in Texarkana.
Cox allegedly admitted to Green that she struck the mail box but she claimed to have been "unaware of making contact with the pedestrian," the affidavit states.
Cox turned herself in June 13. She was released after posting bond on a $15,000 bail set by Bowie County Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Nancy Talley.
Failure to stop and render aid resulting in serious bodily injury is punishable by two to 10 years in a Texas prison.