Weeks after auto-pedestrian death, Utah family wants answers

OREM, Utah — A lethal collision has one household struggling to come back to phrases with the lack of their cherished another than 5 weeks later.

Shantel Sullivan stated Thursday it had been 38 days with barely any solutions in any respect from police within the demise of her mom.

“It’s irritating,” Sullivan instructed KSL TV in an interview from her house in Grantsville. “The one factor I’ve is from witnesses.”

On Sept. 12, Sullivan stated 73-year-old Sharon Fawson was hit and killed in an obvious auto-pedestrian collision close to Sharon Park, 266 E. 600 North.

In line with Sullivan, Fawson had passed by herself over to the pickleball courts and was returning when witnesses stated she was struck by a automobile.

“The witnesses had said that she was strolling they usually didn’t see the automobile’s headlights and subsequent factor you knew she wasn’t there anymore,” Sullivan stated.

Sullivan stated apart from an preliminary notification from Grantsville Police, who got here to her door the evening of the collision, and a name on Monday from Orem Police saying it might be a pair extra weeks earlier than they’d have info to launch, she had heard nothing from investigators — even concerning probably the most fundamental particulars of what occurred.

“You’re simply left to guess and that’s the arduous half,” Sullivan stated. “I would like justice for my mother — like, she misplaced her life that evening, you realize.”

On Thursday night, an Orem Police spokesman returned a name to KSL and maintained the division had been in common contact with household the whole time, however he additionally as soon as once more declined to supply the fundamental particulars of what occurred, and that was after a number of calls and an open information request positioned to the division.

The open information request was denied on grounds that the collision remained underneath investigation.

“They stated as soon as they take it to town attorneys, which might be the primary or second week of November, then we will perhaps, probably have some solutions,” Sullivan stated.

Sullivan stated she was remembering her mom as a enjoyable lady who “may make associates wherever” and located her grandchildren to be her “satisfaction and pleasure.”

She hoped closure in her mom’s case would come at some point.

“That is any person that’s now not right here,” Sullivan stated. “There’s simply not a number of solutions.”