Three people have been killed in separate hit-and-run accidents, two of which occurred this weekend.

Two of the fatalities were investigated by the state Highway Patrol, and the third by Lumberton police.

According to Trooper D.E. Raynor’s report, 34-year-old Darren Bethea, of 462 Brockington Road, Fairmont, was killed when he was hit by a vehicle on Turkey Branch Road about three miles north of Fairmont. The accident was reported at 5:25 a.m. on Sunday.

According to the Highway Patrol, it has been determined that Bethea was sitting or lying in the middle of the eastbound lane when he was struck by an eastbound vehicle. The report said the only description of the vehicle was that it was dark.

According to the Highway Patrol Sgt. G.B. Parrish, a Fayetteville man may have been laying dead in a ditch “two or three days” before his body was found on Sunday about 5 p.m. An autopsy is being performed on Glenn Miller, 58, of 2971 Orbie Circle, to try to pinpoint a time of death.

According to Trooper S.E. Hunt’s report, Miller’s body was found about a mile north of Lumber Bridge off Rural Paved Road 1710. It appeared that Miller was walking on the road when he was struck from behind by a vehicle that then fled.

Anyone with information about either hit-and-run death can call the Highway Patrol at (910) 618-5555, (800) 334-7411 or by hitting *47 from a cell phone. Callers do not have to given their names.

Lumberton police are still asking for information from anyone who may have seen the hit- and-run Sunday about 10:30 p.m. on Interstate 95 that killed a 23 year-old woman and injured her 30-year-old boyfriend.

According to Lt. Johnny Barnes of the Lumberton Police Department, Ashley Smith, of 305 Ball Park Road, died when she was struck in the northbound lane near Exit 13 as she and Broderick Jones, of 147 Spruce St., Proctorville, were changing a tire. Jones was at Duke Medical Center this morning, Barnes said.

Barnes said the car was parked on the shoulder of the northbound lane with Smith standing at the left rear of the vehicle when she and Jones were struck.

According to law enforcement, the last five people killed on Robeson County roads have been pedestrians and in four of those incidents, the driver of the vehicle that struck the pedestrian fled the scene.