Update: Alleged Drunken Driver's Bond Set at $500,000

Update — Monday, Jan. 2, 3 p.m.: A judge on Monday set bond at $500,000 for the man charged with felony DUI in the collision that killed a six-year-old Lexington girl on Sunday.

At a bond hearing Monday, Billy Patrick Hutto, Jr., 26, of Gilbert, was ordered held on bonds of $250,000 each on charges of felony driving under the influence causing death and felony driving under the influence causing great bodily injury. 

Hutto apologized to the more than 20 friends and family of the Longstreet family, "I just want to tell the family that I'm extremely sorry and I agree with a bond denial. I do not protest that," Hutto told the judge, according to this report by WIS-TV.

Lexington Police charge that an impaired Hutto struck a van carrying six-year-old Emma Longstreet, killing the girl as she was headed to church services about 10:40 a.m. on U.S. Highway 378.

Hutto also had been convicted on a DUI charge in 2009, said Lexington police Lt. Wally Bledsoe.

Original story: A six-year-old Lexington girl traveling with her family to church services died Sunday when the van she was riding in was struck by an alleged drunken driver, according to the Lexington Police Department.

The fatal collision occurred around 10:40 a.m. on U.S. Highway 378 at Old Cherokee Road, said Lexington police Lt. Carroll Bledsoe. The wreck diverted traffic in the area for several hours.

Lexington County Coroner Harry Harman identified the victim as six-year-old Emma Longstreet of Lexington. The child, who was wearing a seatbelt, was traveling in a van with several other family members on their way to morning services at Northside Baptist Church.

According to police reports, the family's vehicle was struck in the side by a car driven by Billy Patrick Hutto, Jr., 26, of Gilbert. The collision also caused another vehicle to be struck. The driver of that vehicle, Kenneth Sinchak of Lexington, along with all members of the Longstreet family, were transported to Palmetto Health Richland with various and unspecified injuries, according to one published report.

Hutto has been charged with Felony Driving Under the Influence Causing Death, as well as Felony Driving Under the Influence Causing Great Bodily Injury, Bledsoe said. Hutto is being held at the Lexington County Detention Center and was scheduled to appear in bond court Monday morning at 10 a.m.

The Lexington Police Department, along with the S.C. Highway Patrol's MAIT Team, continues to investigate the crash.