Lora Hiroskey

Name:
Hiroskey, Lora Michelle

Date of Booking:
11/01/2025

Reason(s) For Booking:
FAILURE TO REPORT AN ACCIDENT

HIT AND RUN; DUTY OF DRIVER TO STOP AT OR RETURN TO SCENE OF ACCIDENT

Officer’s Narrative:
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On 11/2/2025 I was dispatched to [100 BLOCK] Cotton Bluff Rd. in response to a hit and run that had occurred at some point throughout the night and had just been discovered by the victim.

I arrived on scene and met with the complainant, [VICTIM #1]. [VICTIM #1] informed me that he had was getting ready to go to church when he noticed that his white Toyota Tacoma was not in the same position as he had parked it. Upon further inspection he also discovered that the vehicle had suffered significant damage to the front end. [VICTIM #1] added that he didn’t know when the incident causing the damage had occurred but that it had to have been after 01:30 as he was still awake at that time.

[VICTIM #1] had already begun reaching out to neighbors prior to my arrival, requesting that they check their security cameras for any evidence of what had happened. One neighbor had sent [VICTIM #1] a screen shot of a white SUV that they claimed had jumped the curb into their yard just after 2am. [VICTIM #1] added that Cotton Bluff Rd. ends in a cul-de-sac and the neighbor reported that the vehicle in the screen shot had not come back down the street since it was captured on his camera.

After taking down [VICTIM #1]’s information and viewing the picture he had been sent I left his residence and began to canvas the area for any vehicles matching the one in the image with damage that would indicate that it had been the one to strike [VICTIM #1]’s pickup. Upon passing [100 BLOCK] Cotton Bluff Rd. I observed a white Toyota Highlander with significant damage to the front right side, the side that would have struck [VICTIM #1]’s truck, parked in the driveway. Upon running the tag affixed to the vehicle I was able to identify the registered owner as Lora Hiroskey. I knocked on the door and after waiting for several minutes Ms. Hiroskey answered.

I asked Ms. Hiroskey to step outside and speak with me about her car. Hiroskey claimed that she didn’t know her vehicle had been in an accident and told me that she had gone to a bar the night before where she had too much to drink. Hiroskey claimed that a friend had offered to drive her home while she was asleep laid out in the back seat. When asked if the friend was still at the residence she claimed that the friend had taken an Uber home. Hiroskey refused to identify the supposed friend and insisted that she would simply take responsibility for the accident.

At this time I informed her that the vehicle had been involved in a hit an run, an arrestable offense, and the person responsible would be arrested. Hiroskey continued to insist that she would take responsibility for the incident and refused to identify the friend she claimed was driving. Inspection of the vehicle revealed that there were several large objects occupying the back seat that would have made riding there impossible.

When asked again, Hiroskey changed her story, acknowledging that there was too much junk in the back seat for someone to fit there and said that she had been riding in the front seat. Upon inspection of the front seat found it covered in a green sticky substance later determined to be cake icing which Hiroskey said was from a cake she got from her son which had flipped onto the seat. There was also a ceramic kitchen knife left in the seat. Upon a gentle touch of the icing it immediately took the shape of my fingerprint and another portion of it came loose, sticking to my finger.

I concluded that if someone had sat on the icing it would have been disturbed beyond the state in which it was found. This conclusion dispelled the idea that there could have been more than one occupant in the vehicle at the time of the collision, making it impossible for the driver to have been anyone other than Hiroskey.

While speaking with Hiroskey, [VICTIM #1] approached the residence and showed a both Hiroskey and I a video that his neighbor had sent him of Hiroskey’s Highlander striking his vehicle, causing it to slide approximately 3 feet into the position it was found in the next morning. Based on the evidence I had observed up to this point Hiroskey was placed under arrest and transported to the Effingham County Jail to be booked.

[End of Narrative]