BCSO searching for fleeing driver

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The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office is looking for the driver a light-colored Hyundai after the vehicle left the scene of an accident early Sunday.

According to the accident report, the silver Hyundai was traveling northbound on Highway 201 around 1 a.m. when it veered off the left side of the roadway, traveled along a ditch and struck a culvert. The vehicle then went airborne, landed in a yard on Sandhill Drive and struck a tree in the residence’s driveway. The driver then fled the scene in the extensively damaged Hyundai.

Damage to the culvert and tree was estimated at $550.

Those with any information on the accident or the driver of the Hyundai, contact Investigator Larry Walters at 425-7000.

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