A suspect has been charged after a hit and run in Myrtle Beach.
Sgt. Shannon Toole, with the Myrtle Beach Police Department Traffic Unit, says officers responded to Ocean Boulevard and 5th Avenue North for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle around 10 p.m. on Monday. Officers arrived and determined that a male and a female were crossing Ocean Blvd. in a marked crosswalk, when they were struck by a vehicle traveling south bound on Ocean Blvd. The male pedestrian was not injured, but the female pedestrian suffered serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries. She was transported to a hospital for treatment. No information of her condition is available.
According to Toole, the vehicle fled the scene of the collision and was found a short time later. The driver of the vehicle, who was identified as Erick Burgess, was arrested and charged.
Myrtle Beach Police Department’s P2C says 40-year-old Erick Germaine Burgess is charged with DUI/felony driving while under the influence causing great bodily injury, hit and run causing great bodily injury, and failure to give information and render aid.
No mugshot is available for Burgess.
