Crime & Safety
High School Wrestler Faces More Charges in Hit-and-Run Incident
One of the victim's vertebrae was rendered useless.
On June 17, about 7am, Jens Dressler was riding a bicycle on a sidewalk off South Lumpkin Street near his home on Jolly Lane. At South Lumpkin and Gran Ellen Drive, a car veered off the road, jumped a curb and hit Dressler. Police say Jace Leamon McColskey of Jefferson was driving.
Dressler, 47, sustained a spinal fracture and other injuries, according to a story in the Athens Banner Herald.
He was at first charged with DUI, hit-and-run, reckless driving and underage consumption of alcohol, but a recent indictment in Clarke County Superior Court means McColskey also faces three felony counts of serious injury accident, the story says.
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According to the story, after McColskey, then 17, hit Dressler, he left the scene. He was arrested on Prince Avenue by a police officer who stopped his damaged car.
The story says McCloskey posted a $9,000 bond and was released from the Clarke County Jail.
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