Five Years Later; Family Offers Reward in Hit and Run

Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)–Saturday marks five years since cardiac nurse Lindsay Bires was seriously injured in a hit and run outside Palmetto Health Richland.

Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook says the Bires’ family is now offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

On September 16, 2012, police say Bires was standing on the sidewalk on Medical Park Dr. when, according to witnesses, a white compact car ran off the road twice before hitting the nurse causing life-threatening injuries.

Bires released this statement to police;

“Although I have made significant progress in my recovery, every day since the accident has been filled with pain and struggle. My life as I knew it ended 5 years ago and I have had to fight to regain every inch of it.Meanwhile, the selfish person who hit me continued on with their life uninterrupted, as if nothing happened at all. I have undergone more than 25 operations and year after year of intense therapy, the whole time wondering how this person could sleep at night without admitting what they had done.

I do, however, hold out some hope that the suspect will be caught or be turned in to truly face what they did to me. There is someone out there who knows something.

Please come forward. I am hysterically crying as I write this. That person took away my entire life as I knew it; please don’t keep this to yourself any longer.

 Help me at least recover some justice and closure for what was done to me, in this horrible chapter of my life.”

If you have any information on this incident call the Columbia Police Department or Crimestoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC.