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Morrison advised Vollman of his inability to find the cop and she told him to leave her his number. "I did, and that was about two weeks ago and I haven't heard back from her either."

Smith says that one cop spoke frankly to her. He said that it was very unlikely that anybody would be pulled off of patrol to track down a woman and cite her for one moving violation and two nonmoving violations committed almost two years ago. And now time is running out: If they don't track her down by the two-year anniversary of the crash — April 30, 2010 — she will be free and clear thanks to the statute of limitations.

Courtesy of Sharon Smith

Steve Morrison was killed instantly when Rosa Villegas-Vatres's Nissan Frontier ran a red light and plowed into his Saturn at the corner of Westpark and Hillcroft.

Chris Curry

Sharon Smith, Steve Morrison's sister, said that a Houston policeman told her it was unlikely that the driver of the car that killed her brother would even get a traffic ticket.

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