Poughkeepsie Town Clerk Susan Miller is back at Town Hall, anticipating a full recovery from the injuries she sustained in a hit-and-run accident in April and looking to keep her post for another term.
Miller returned to work part-time on Monday, June 6, and expects to resume her full-time duties on Monday, June 20, she said this week. “I’m feeling good,” she said.
It was raining heavily on the night of Miller’s accident, April 2. She was in the parking lot of the Price Chopper supermarket in the South Hills Mall that evening when she was struck by a dark-colored van or pickup truck at 9:25 p.m., according to town police.
Police said this week their investigation has turned up no further information about the identity of the driver.
Miller sustained five bone fractures, three to her pelvis and two to her sacrum, a bone near the base of the spinal cord. She was treated at Vassar Brothers Hospital and has undergone inpatient and outpatient physical therapy for several weeks.
When her treatment is done, she said, she’s looking forward to hitting the campaign trail to seek a seventh term as town clerk, the position she has held since 1994. “I’ll have a full recovery from my fractures, so I can do my campaigning,” she said. “I’ll be pounding the pavement.”
Miller’s democratic opponent in this year’s election will be Nancy Hritz-Seifts, an employee of the town’s personnel department before Town Supervisor Joseph Davis abolished it in 2003.