W. Ind. woman pleads guilty crash that killed boy

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A Terre Haute woman has pleaded guilty in the hit-and-run death of a 13-year-old boy that a family member tried to cover up by making it look like her SUV had hit a deer.

Twenty-one-year-old Lindsay Pinegar pleaded guilty in a Vigo County court Monday to a felony charge of failing to stop at a fatal crash for the October 2009 death of Nathaniel Lawson as he walked along a city street. Pinegar faces two years to eight years in prison when she’s sentenced Dec. 22.

Dana Lawson tells the Tribune-Star that she doesn’t think the maximum sentence of eight years is enough because of her son’s death.

Pinegar’s former stepfather, James Carrier, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for smearing deer blood and fur on her damaged SUV.