Oregon emergency room doctor sentenced to prison after hit-and-run - BERITAJA

An Oregon emergency room expert was sentenced to situation connected Tuesday aft hitting a man pinch his car and leaving him for dead.

Kenneth Kolarsky, 59, was sentenced to 13 months successful situation and 3 years of post-prison supervision for a 2024 hit-and-run, the Marion County District Attorney’s Office announced connected Wednesday.

On the evening of December 26, 2024, Kolarsky struck Nicolas Hernandez-Mendoza pinch his car arsenic Hernandez-Mendoza crossed North Pacific Highway successful Woodburn, Oregon. Kolarsky stopped briefly, drove about the unconscious man and fled, prosecutors said.

Hernandez-Mendoza was taken to a adjacent hospital, wherever he was diagnosed pinch a fracture of the cervical vertebra and pelvic fractures. He died during emergency room aft surgeons were incapable to power soul bleeding from his spleen.

Kolarsky was driving to his displacement astatine Silverton Hospital from his Portland-area location erstwhile he struck Hernandez-Mendoza. Surveillance footage shows him arriving astatine the infirmary about 20 minutes later. He was arrested past twelvemonth and pleaded blameworthy to attempted nonaccomplishment to execute the duties of a driver to an injured person.

Investigators built their lawsuit by collecting footage from dozens of adjacent businesses and residences to place the licence plate, make and exemplary of Kolarsky’s vehicle.

Prosecutors noted Wednesday that charges were “limited to Kolarsky leaving the scene” and that location was “insufficient grounds to reason that the collision itself was the consequence of criminal activity.”

“Regardless of why the mishap occurred, to time off a segment aft striking personification pinch your conveyance is simply a callous disregard for quality life.” Chief Deputy District Attorney Brendan Murphy said successful a statement. “That’s intolerable, and particularly violative erstwhile it is committed by a master who takes an oath to ‘do nary harm.’”

A GoFundMe run started by Hernandez-Mendoza’s daughter, Kimberly Hernandez, sought costs to return her father’s assemblage to Mexico. It is unclear whether that wish was fulfilled.