An 89-year-old woman in Wisconsin is accused of crashing into a 9-year-old girl who was on her way to school and then driving away.
Darlene Adam stands charged with hit-and-run causing injury, according to a criminal complaint reviewed by Law&Crime.
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It was before 8 a.m. on Oct. 28, a Tuesday, and Lenci Lambert was on her way to school, as local NBC affiliate WTMJ reported . At a crosswalk at the intersection of East Ramsey and South Swift avenues in Cudahy, a Milwaukee suburb, a crossing guard raised his stop sign.
As the crossing guard stood in the crosswalk wearing a "high-visibility vest," Lenci began to cross the street. But a silver sedan was

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