Woonsocket Woman Charged With Failing To Report Friend's Death

Driver reported earlier death of Johnston man after crashing his car into a guardrail.

RI State Police have charged a Woonsocket woman with failing to report a man's death for several hours, taking his car and crashing it into a guardrail in Smithfield before telling police he was dead. State Police Captain Michael J. Winquist said that at 11:45 a.m. yesterday, a trooper responded to a car crash on Rte. 44 west in Smithfield involving a car that had struck a guardrail. The officer arrested driver Dawn Utting, age 45, of 75 Union St., apt. 1R, Woonsocket, for reckless driving and operating with a suspended license, but there was more to her story. "When the trooper was speaking to her, she referred to a male friend" whose car she was driving, and whom she said had died at his Johnston apartment at about 4 am that morning, …

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