RALEIGH, N.C. — A lawyer for State Auditor Beth Wood on Thursday appeared in administrative court, where a hearing on her hit-and-run charge was scheduled for March 23.
Wood was charged Dec 12 with misdemeanor hit-and-run resulting in property after a downtown Raleigh crash involving a state-owned vehicle.
The party was held Dec. 8 in the building featured in a recently unsurfaced social media video. The video, posted on the same night, shows a tall woman fitting the description of Wood being ushered away from the crash scene and into a building at 132 S. Salisbury St.
Wood, who reported the crash to insurers last month, said in a statement on Monday that she had been attending a holiday gathering for about two hours prior to the crash. She didn’t provide specifics about the gathering.
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