A man who surrendered to police on Tuesday admitted to being behind the wheel during a fatal hit-and-run that killed a 6-year-old girl on Sunday.
Dallas police say 67-year-old David Eric Polley was arrested and charged with collision involving death in connection with the death of the girl. Polley was booked into the Dallas County Jail and is being held on a bond of $50,000.
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WATCH HEREAccording to a prior statement from Dallas police, at about 10:25 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 16, officers were called to a hit-and-run crash involving a child on the 5900 block of Belt Line Road.
Surveillance video obtained by NBC 5 showed the child running from Ladera Drive into oncoming traffic headed westbound on Belt Line Road. In the video, a different driver slowed and almost stopped to avoid hitting the child. Seconds later, Dallas police said a driver headed westbound in a newer model, white Acura MDX, struck the girl in the street. Officers said the driver of the Acura pulled into an adjacent parking lot before leaving without providing any assistance.
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SIGN UP Other drivers stopped to help, and police said the child was taken to a hospital, where she later died.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by NBC 5 on Wednesday, after Dallas police identified the vehicle as an Acura MDX, they reviewed recordings from several area businesses that showed the SUV leaving the area and entering the northbound lanes of the Dallas North Tollway. Using records from the tollway gantry, police identified the vehicle's owner through their license plate.
Police said investigators then identified an associate of the vehicle's owner and drove by her home in Lewisville. When they arrived, they spotted a white Acura MDX with front-end damage "consistent with a pedestrian strike" pulling into a driveway. A short time later, the detectives said they received a message from Polley's attorney that he admitted to being the driver in the hit-and-run and wanted to surrender.
After the crash, a witness told NBC 5 that a man at the corner gas station ran to the scene when he saw the police lights. The witness said the man identified himself as the child's grandfather.
Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact Det. Kyle Land at kyle.land@dallaspolice.gov or phone 214-671-0014.
