A haunting 1954 story involving a "minor movie actress" named Lynn Baggett highlights the lasting, tragic nature of hit-and-run cases. On July 7th of that year, Baggett was driving a Nash Rambler in Los Angeles when she rammed into the back of a station wagon filled with young boys returning from a day trip.
She drove to a movie theater to calm herself and hid the car, but police located it 48 hours later, linking the car to actor George Tobias, who had loaned it to her. Hit & Run
Instead of stopping to help, Baggett got out, looked at the carnage, decided it was "too much for her," and drove away. A haunting 1954 story involving a "minor movie