Grand jury declines to indict student driver in Sept. 17 mishap

The Chatham County grand jury on Wednesday declined to indict a 17-year-old Beach High School student in a Sept. 17 mishap in which two student pedestrians were injured.
Grand jurors failed to find sufficient evidence to send a charge of failure to maintain lane against Desiree Khristina Adams to Superior Court, returning a no bill.
The grand jury also  declined to indict Adams and her mother, Khristi Monique Chisolm, on charges of serious injury to a pedestrian in the same incident.
They also declined to indict Chisolm on a charge of interference with a driver while a passenger in the car driven by her daughter.
Savannah-Chatham police said Adams was driving with a learner’s permit out of a parking lot in a 2008 Kia Optima with her mother when she accidentally accelerated and over-steered on Hopkins Street in an attempt to avoid striking an oak tree.
Two girls, Brianna Quarterman and Aaliyah Washington, both 9-year-old students at Hodge Elementary School, were walking on Hopkins Street at West 47th Street when they were struck, police said.
Police said the driver struck the pedestrians, jumped a curb and continued across a front lawn before hitting a car in the parking lot.
Both children were injured but survived.