Jackson County woman faces charges related to a June 2023 accident

A woman in Jackson County is accused of hitting a teenager on a motorcycle with her car and leaving him in a ditch. Dezirae Coyer of Vienna hit the motorcyclist, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, and he’s been identified as Jaden Sayre. The accident happened last June on Route 68 just north of Ravenswood. Coyer was indicted last week for leaving the scene of an accident. Sayre suffered broken legs, arms and pelvis. He also punctured a lung and lost a kidney and was hospitalized for three weeks after the accident.