Windsor Locks Man Admits To Smoking Crack Before Hit-And-Run: PD

SUFFIELD, CT — A Windsor Locks man admitted in a sworn statement that he smoked crack cocaine before fatally hitting a 20-year-old UConn student, according to an arrest warrant obtained by multiple media outlets.

Frederick Seymour, 58, turned himself into police on Friday for the Oct. 23 hit-and-run. He was held in jail over the weekend, then arraigned Monday at Hartford Superior Court. He remains in police custody, and his bond has been increased to $800,000, according to the Hartford Courant.

Seymour is charged with evading responsibility in a death or serious injury accident, and driving under a suspended license. He is in detention at the Hartford Correctional Center, and is scheduled to return to court on Dec. 2, according to state Department of Correction records.

Judge Kimberly P. Massicotte raised Seymour’s bond after she said she was “greatly concerned about public safety," the Journal Inquirer reported.

Seymour walked into a police station in Suffield unannounced on Friday to confess, numerous media outlets report. He said in a sworn written statement that he had been “having trouble sleeping and I feel guilty about it and want to do the right thing," according to the arrest report made public Monday by the Journal Inquirer.

Seymour said in the statement that he had smoked crack cocaine with friends the day of the accident, when Seymour asked to borrow his friend’s Jeep Cherokee, the warrant states.

Just after 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 23, Seymour was driving down Route 159 near Thrall Avenue, when Meghan Voisine was crossing the street with friends on the way to a sorority party, according to a report in Patch.

Voisine dropped her phone and card carrier in the middle of the road, and as she tried to gather them, Seymour’s car hit her, the warrant states. She was dragged and thrown 65 feet, according to the police report.

Seymour said that he was driving the speed limit and saw “something flash across the road in front of us,” documents state. However, one of Voisine’s friends reported seeing a car traveling so fast “it must be flying,” according to a report in the Journal Inquirer.

After Voisine was hit, a number of cars pulled up to help. One witness told investigators they saw Seymour pacing and saying, “[expletive] me, I hit her,” before he fled the scene, according to the Hartford Courant. Seymour said in the statement that he panicked and ran away, but thought the girl was alive and being cared for, the warrant states.

Seymour also said in his statement that he learned the following day that the girl had died, and “played dumb” when his friend asked him about the damage to the car, the warrant states. After police put out a call asking for information on the damaged Jeep Cherokee, the friend called to say he thought his car might be involved, according to the Hartford Courant.

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