F R Y E B U R G, Maine Sept. 25, 2000 – Horror writer Stephen King expressed sympathy upon learning that the driver who hit him while he was
walking near his summer home last year had died over the weekend.
Smith pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor
driving-to-endanger charge. Prosecutors dropped a charge of
aggravated assault. Smith received a six-month suspended jail
sentence.
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