Worcester County Sheriff’s deputies charged Michael Calhoun Gibson, 44, of Berlin, with 10 offenses following an apparent hit-and-run accident on Feb. 26 at Racetrack Road and Ocean Parkway.
Deputies responded to reports of a motor vehicle crash at about 5 p.m. that evening and found an unidentified vehicle with damage to its rear passenger side. The passenger of the vehicle was complaining of neck and back injury and was taken to Atlantic General Hospital, according to police.
After hearing a police broadcast of the incident, a state trooper found a vehicle abandoned at the end of Beauchamp Road that was missing its left front tire.
Gibson is the registered owner of the found vehicle, a Ford F-150.
Gibson was interviewed on Feb. 28 by a deputy. Based on that interview, he was charged with: failure to control speed to avoid a collision, negligent driving, failure to return and remain at the scene of an accident involving injury, failure to return and remain at the scene of an accident involving a damaged vehicle, failure to stop at the scene of an accident, failure to stop at an accident involving injury, failure of a driver involved in an accident to render reasonable assistance to an injured person, failure of a driver to furnish proper identification and driver’s license, failure to provide insurance information and driving on a highway with metal wheel in contact with the road.
He is scheduled to appear in District Court in Snow Hill on May 25.