A Villager has gotten off with a light sentence after her sport utility vehicle struck a golf cart and she fled the scene.
Noreen Nevrly, 76, of the Village of Hillsborough, offered a plea of no contest this past week in Sumter County Court to a felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident. She has been placed on probation for six months and has been ordered to perform 60 hours of community service.
Nevrly had been arrested in the wake of the March 31, 2025, hit-and-run crash in which Villager Roseanna Diiuro was knocked from her golf cart onto the pavement. Diiuro suffered a traumatic brain injury, 14 broken ribs, a broken clavicle, a broken scapula, punctured lungs, and other extensive internal trauma. Her husband had been traveling in the golf cart with her but escaped serious injury.
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper showed up at Nevrly’s house the following day, suspecting that it was Nevrly’s SUV that struck the golf cart. The SUV had been captured on a gate camera at about the time of the crash.
The arrest report indicated that the FHP investigator spoke to Nevrly’s husband, who voluntarily opened the garage door so the trooper could inspect the vehicle. The report said that Nevrly was in the house, and when she realized what was going on, the Chicago native opened an interior door to the garage and shut the main garage door. By that time, the trooper had already noted damage to the SUV consistent with the hit-and-run case and confirmed its license plate number was the same one captured on gate camera surveillance near the time of the crash.
Nevrly’s attorney recently sought to have that evidence suppressed. Her attorney’s action may have exerted enough pressure to persuade the prosecutor’s office to come to the table offering the relatively light sentence. The court file did not make any indication of restitution.