Mount Holly woman killed in hit-and-run crash was a grandmother, family says

MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. — A grandmother who was killed in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Mount Holly also lived on the street where she died.

Police said 42-year-old Amanda Frisbee was killed when someone hit her with their car Monday morning and kept going. It happened along West Central Avenue between Kendrick and Hawthorne streets.

Frisbee’s family wants that driver to turn themselves in to police.

Frisbee started every day with a walk to the store for a soft drink. Her family said she would come home happy and ready to face the world.

But on Monday morning, she left home and never returned.

Frisbee’s family told Channel 9′s Ken Lemon she was their best friend.

Alexis Frisbee married Amanda’s son.

“Her grandkids don’t understand why their Ma-Ma can’t come see them anymore,” she said.

She remembers what she and her husband said in their last phone call with Amanda two days before the hit-and-run.

“We loved her and we’d see her soon,” Alexis said.

She told Lemon she thought they would have thousands of phone calls to come. But that morning, a neighbor backing out of her driveway found Amanda Frisbee’s body in the street. The driver who hit her was gone.

“For them to just come through there like that with no regard for anybody else -- it’s despicable and I don’t know if we can forgive them for that,” Alexis said.

She said it’s painful wondering if her mother-in-law suffered or laid there a long time waiting for help that never came.

“It’s like you close your eyes and you see it, even though you weren’t there,” she said.

She said it’s frustrating trying to imagine the things that could have gone wrong and trying to envision things they don’t know.

Amanda’s Frisbee’s family wants the driver arrested, but they want answers just as much as they want justice.

“Say something that’s going to help us get through it. Because if they keep running, we are never going to get the closure we need,” Alexis Frisbee said.

Mount Holly police have not shared any details about the suspect or the car. Family members told Lemon the driver had to be speeding because the speed limit on that street is 25 miles per hour. They felt anyone traveling at that speed could have easily avoided a crash.

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