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    Thursday, April 25, 2024

    Driver convicted in accident that fatally injured teacher

    VERNON, Conn. — A driver who struck and fatally injured a Connecticut teacher in a middle school parking lot has been acquitted of manslaughter but convicted of other charges.

    A judge on Thursday delivered the verdicts against Elizabeth Everett, whose SUV who struck 65-year-old math teacher Dawn Mallory. Mallory died from her injuries two weeks later.

    Everett had dropped her son off and was backing up in an area reserved for school buses in the parking lot of RHAM Middle School in Hebron on March 14, 2014. Prosecutors said she had a blood alcohol content of .07, just below the legal limit to drive.

    The 52-year-old Everett was acquitted of second-degree manslaughter but the judge found her guilty of misconduct with a motor vehicle and unsafe backing. The misconduct charge is a felony.

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