Hit-and-Run Fatality, Now 911 Questions

Baltimore (Md.) police say they are investigating how a dispatcher handled a 911 call reporting a possible drunken driver, 90 minutes before that same vehicle struck and killed a 20 year-old university student, and then fled the scene. Miriam Frankl was run down by a white truck, the same one reported earlier by Nicholas Walters as speeding, driving erratically, and circling the neighborhood. Police later arrested Thomas Meighan Jr., who has nine convictions for DUI and many other traffic citations. A transcript of the 911 call seems to show the calltaker properly obtained information about the vehicle, and that a radio dispatcher informed the appropriate beat officer. But the caller says he believes the call didn’t receive the appropriate attention, and that the driver might have been stopped before killing Frankl.