Fifteen Months for Hit and Run

Joseph Wade Payne, convicted of hit and run, sentenced.

A Buckingham man charged in a hit-and-run crash last year that killed a 71-year-old Crozet man who was retrieving his mail was sentenced Tuesday to one year and three months in prison. … Payne pleaded guilty in October to a single felony count of failure to stop at the scene of an accident.

Fifteen months.