WRAL: ““I am human. I am not perfect,” Wood told the court Thursday. “I apologize to the people of North Carolina who have trusted me.”
Wood had been attending a holiday gathering before the Dec. 8 crash. She said Thursday that she had consumed two glasses of wine at the party but was not impaired at the time of the crash.
“I take full and complete responsibility for my actions. No excuses,” she told the court. “I made a grave mistake leaving the scene of my accident after a Christmas party in downtown Raleigh. I should have stayed at the scene. I should have called law enforcement. I should have let the process play out.”
The hit-and-run charge and a citation for unsafe movement infraction came four days after Wood drove a state-owned Toyota into a parked car, rolling partially up onto its hood, according to police reports, images and descriptions of the crash aftermath reported to emergency dispatchers. Police arrived at the scene to find the engine running and no driver, one of those reports said. The unsafe movement citation was dropped.
The car, a 2021 Toyota sedan, had been assigned to Wood in 2021. Following the crash, she was asked by the state to avoid driving other state cars until investigations into the incident were complete.”