Elon woman charged in hit-and-run

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Robin Stanfield Ragsdale

ELON — An Elon woman on probation after she was convicted of killing four people in a wreck in 2007 was arrested today and charged in a hit-and-run that injured an Elon University student on Wednesday.

Robin Stanfield Ragsdale, 35, of 500 James Toney Drive is charged with felony hit and run, according to a news release from police.

A tip led police Ragsdale’s home. After an interview, she confessed to striking the victim and said she fled the scene because she panicked, according to the release.

Toorialey Fazly is a 26-year-old exchange student at Elon. He was riding a bike east on West Lebanon Avenue near the Elon campus when he was hit near North Lee Avenue.

Witnesses said the car that hit Fazly was a white sedan driven by a woman.

Fazly was taken by helicopter to Duke University Hospital in Durham where he is in stable condition.

Ragsdale was convicted in 2008 of four misdemeanor counts of death by vehicle. She received suspended sentences of 45 days in jail on each count and five years probation, officials said.

According to police reports, Stanfield was driving west on University Drive in an Isuzu sport utility vehicle when it ran off the road and struck four people on July 14, 2007. The four were trying to load a broken-down Mercury Cougar onto a trailer.

Michael Todd King, 43, of Swepsonville, and Mildred Jones Isley, 57, Freddie Charles Coulter, 55, and Sandra Goins Coulter, 51, all of Graham, were killed.