Crime & Safety

Still No Arrests in Hit-And-Run Death of Clinton Teen

It's been a year since 15-year-old Cailyn Bassett was struck and killed while walking along Saybrook Avenue in Middletown.

Little over a year has passed since the tragic hit-and-run accident that took the life of Clinton teen Cailyn Bassett as she walked along Saybrook Road in Middletown.

And although Middletown Police had secured video footage and a "vehicle of interest," they still await the autopsy report from Connecticut's chief medical examiner's office, according to the Middletown Press, and hope to receive them by the end of February.

Bassett, 15, and a 10th-grader at the Morgan School in Clinton, was struck and killed in Middletown on Dec. 7, 2012, at 5:45 p.m., police said, near the intersection of Coe Avenue Extension.

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Officers were led to the vehicle after obtaining video surveillance from the area, allowing them to “identify the vehicle that it would probably be,” Middletown Police Lt. Heather Desmond said.

Bassett attended the Middletown High School vocational agricultural program for a short while, was a talented writer and artist, loved reading and hoped someday to become a veterinarian and writer.

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With the passage of Middletown's $15.2 million road improvement referendum, the city's public works department is building sidewalks, including one on Saybrook Road near Stop & Shop. Within the past year, she said, there have been a couple accidents — including one fatal — involving pedestrians there.


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