Kansas law requires that any person involved in a vehicular collision must immediately report the incident to police if any person involved in the collision is injured or killed as a result. A South Dakota man was convicted Tuesday of leaving the scene of a fatality accident after failing to do that when he was involved in a hit-and-run fatality in May.
In closing arguments Tuesday afternoon, assistant Riley County attorney John Griffin told jurors the fact that Shane Jungemann did not report the incident meant he should be convicted in his Riley County District Court case, “irrespective of cause of blame.”
Jungemann, 48, of Jefferson City, South Dakota, was in his second day of trial when legal counsel made closing arguments. After just under an hour of jury deliberation he was found guilty of leaving the scene of a fatal accident in connection with the May death of Samuel Ratliff, 32. Jungemann was driving a semi and pulling an empty cattle trailer when he backed into Ratliff.
