Ashland Woman Charged with Vehicular Assault After Route 13 Crash

DUNBARTON, NH — Police in neighboring Dunbarton have issued charges against an Ashland woman for vehicular assault and failure to stop at a stop sign after an accident that injured a pregnant woman on Route 13/John Stark Highway South just outside of Concord on July 30, 2016. Amber Fitts, 21, was arrested on Aug. 3, on the charges after police completed their investigation of the crash earlier this week.

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Sgt. Christopher Remillard of the Dunbarton Police reported that police and fire and rescue teams were sent to a report of a rollover at just before 1 p.m. Witnesses stated that Fitts allegedly failed to stop while in her 2004 Honda Civic at the end of Gorham Pond Road. The Civic struck a Cadillac Escalade being driven by a Dunbarton man. He lost control of the vehicle, it flipped several times, and struck a rock wall before landing upright, according to Remillard.

The Escalade driver’s 37-weeks pregnant wife was a passenger in the vehicle and was severely injured in the leg and lost a lot of blood, according to police. Another child in the vehicle was uninjured.

“A witness helped apply a belt as a tourniquet to help control the bleeding while waiting for first responders,” according to Remillard.

The woman was transported to Concord Hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries, and received an emergency C-section. She then went into surgery to have her leg repaired, according to Remillard. Mom and baby are expected to be fine, according to a report on WMUR-TV.

Police conducted an investigation of the entire incident and then issued an arrest warrant against Fitts. She turned herself in to police on Aug. 3. She’s due in court on Sept. 26. Fitts faces up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine.