MIDDLETOWN — A grand jury on Wednesday indicted a Middletown woman on charges stemming from a hit-and-run, chain-reaction car crash at a local gas station last summer that left one driver injured and killed a woman struck as she pumped gas.

Rebecca Faulkner, 29, of 26 Stockton Drive, was indicted on charges of leaving the scene of a deadly accident; drunken driving and reckless driving in connection with a deadly accident; and leaving an accident scene, drunken driving and reckless driving, all with personal injury resulting.

Middletown police had responded on Aug. 13, at about 10:15 a.m., to Johnny’s Getty Service Station, at 795 West Main Rd., for a report of an accident.

Faulkner was allegedly drunk when she crashed her 1998 Volkswagen Jetta into one vehicle, injuring the driver and causing that car to strike Signe Larson, who was outside of her car. Larson was hospitalized and released, but she died 12 days later, in Fort Myers, Fla., of complications of a hematoma she suffered in her leg and thigh as a result of the car crash, according to the state attorney general’s office.

Larson’s age and address could not be learned yesterday.

Faulkner allegedly fled after the crash, and a witness followed her to the parking lot of China Star II restaurant, where he took away her car keys.

Faulkner appeared drunk when Middletown police spoke with her, and her car had heavy front-end damage, according to a police report. She told the police that she had gone for a drive on Ocean Drive, in Newport, after dropping her husband off at work and had stopped at the Getty station for gas, the police said. She told the police that she struck another car after her foot slipped between her gas and brake pedals.

Faulkner failed a field sobriety test and did not cooperate with the police as they tried to give her a chemical breath test, the report said.

Faulkner will be arraigned May 15 in Newport Superior Court. She faces a maximum sentence on the charges with the most serious penalties — leaving the scene of a deadly accident and drunken driving, death resulting — of 15 years in prison and a three- or five-year loss of driver’s license.

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