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Driver Charged in Newport News Crash


Posted on Apr 23, 2010

Around 5:30 p.m. yesterday evening, a red Lincoln Navigator traveling at a high rate of speed did not yield at the intersection of Madison Ave and 36th Street in Newport News.  A taxi travelling through the intersection hit the Navigator, causing it to flip several times.  Jeanette Watford was ejected from and subsequently trapped underneath the Navigator; witnesses tried to free her but she died before they could get her out.  The driver of the Navigator, 34-year-old Keith Duane Ellis, ran away from the accident, leaving his girlfriend behind.  He was caught a short time later and charged with DUI, involuntary manslaughter, and felony hit and run; he was also charged with his sixth offense of driving with a suspended license.  The driver of the taxi was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

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