Scholarship Fund Set Up for Infant Son of Bethel Mom Killed in Danbury Hit-and-Run

A scholarship fund has been set up for the infant son of Rachel Sack, the 23-year-old Bethel mother who was struck and killed early Saturday in Danbury by a hit-and-run driver.

Sack was the mother of a 9-week-old baby boy named Jackson, and worked as a Certified Nurse’s Assistant at Regional Hospice and Home Care in Danbury. A co-worker, who did not wish to be named, described her as someone who “always had a smile for everyone, no matter what she was feeling or what was going on.”

Other co-workers described her as a ”dynamo, spit fire, firecracker” and someone with ”a zest for life” whose face lit up when she spoke about her son.

Witnesses to the crash told Danbury Police they saw a dark-colored SUV flee the scene of South Street and Great Pasture Road in Danbury after the driver stuck the pedestrian.

Donations for the Rachel Sack Scholarship Fund can be made in care of Union Savings Bank, Attn: Main Office, 226 Main St., Danbury, CT 06810.

Danbury Police are asking eyewitnesses to contact Sgt. Rory DeRocco from Danbury Police Department’s Traffic Division at 203-797-2157.

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