Driver in Mother's Day Hit and Run Free on Bail

ST. CHARLES, IL — A Kane County judge reduced the bond for a 42-year-old St. Charles Township man accused of running his pickup truck into a 7-year-old girl while she rode her bike on Mother's Day and then fleeing the scene. The bond for Brian Quartuccio was reduced from $500,000 to $350,000 during the May 28 hearing, according to online jail records. A family member apparently posted 10 percent of that bail, or $35,000, and Quartuccio was released from jail on Thursday, Kane County Sheriff's Office Undersheriff Patrick Gengler told Patch in an e-mail response.

Quartuccio is charged with failure to report an accident and driving on a revoked license in a crash that caused injury in connection with the Mother's Day hit and run. As part of the conditions of his release, Tengler ordered that Quartuccio wear an alcohol-monitoring bracelet and remain at home from 8:30 p.m. to 6:30 am., according to the Kane County Chronicle.

He also could be visited and searched by Kane County Court Services, according to the article.

Quartuccio is accused of fleeing the scene of the hit and run, which happened near Geneva and Courier avenues, at about 1:05 p.m. on Mother's Day. He initially fled the scene of the crash but then turned himself into authorities a day later.

Lexi Hanson, the girl who was hit by Quartuccio's vehicle, was initially taken to the hospital in critical condition after suffering a spinal injury, broken ribs and plenty of bumps and bruises, according to a GoFundMe page set up for Lexi's family and a Kane County Chronicle article. She was released four days later and has been healing at her home in St. Charles Township.

Quartuccio has three past DUI convictions from offenses that occurred in 2004, 2007 and 2012, according to the Daily Herald.

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