The victim is my friend's sister. I know only a few people on my friends list are from the area so I'm making this public (for the odd chance someone finds my journal via the location search.)
Here's Daniel's information regarding the incident:
On sunday august 3rd my sister was pulling out from work and on her way home when she was hit by someone in a red suv. after hitting her they drove off. My sister was taken by ambulence to a baseball feild then flown by helicopter all the way to bethleham's St. Lukes hospital. Luckily she only required some stitches and had lots of minor injuries . However the person that hit her is still at large. If they are not caught my sister will get stuck with all her hospital bills, plus her car, and missed time at work all coming out of her own pocket because she only had liability insurance.
The accident occurred at Hilton reservations in humbolt industrial park in hazleton pa. If you are reading this please keep an eye out for a reddish suv that would have damage to the passenger front side of the car. Or if you happen to work at a plant near there and know someone that drives a red suv and wound up missing a 7pm shift on sunday please call the state police and let them know. Also please repost this message so that more people can be on the lookout for this person. Thank you for your help.
...and the original newspaper article:
http://standardspeaker.com/articles/2008/08/04/news/hz_standspeak.20080804.a.pg5.hz04_hitrun_s1.1855265_loc.txt Any information would be very much appreciated. Thanks.