INVERNESS, Fla. - Janice Boulay was struck by a driver in a Massachusetts parking lot in April 2021. The crash shattered her knee, broke her hand and leg, and left her hospitalized and in rehabilitation for months.

Police gathered enough evidence to arrest the driver, who was charged with leaving the scene of a crash causing serious injury .

Janice and her husband, Bob Boulay, who live in Inverness , were summoned to Massachusetts to testify in 2023. They spent more than $2,000 traveling for the first trial date, but the trial did not proceed, because the defendant did not attend.

Timeline:

The crash occurred in April 2021 in Massachusetts. The first trial date in early 2023 was derailed when the defendant failed to appear.

A new trial was set for May 2023, and the victims were

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