- Melissa Hancock, 25, is a regular guest on Little Women: Atlanta
- Hancock collided head-on with a 29 year old male driver who later died
- Virginia police allege she was driving the wrong way down a one way streethe
- The reality TV star is being held without bail in a Virginia Beach jail
- Hancock is also a fashion model, having walked at New York Fashion Week in 2015
Melissa Hancock, a regular guest on Little Women: Atlanta, was involved in a car accident last Saturday in which a US Coast Guardsman died.
The 25-year-old Lifetime reality TV series star collided head-on with the 29 year old male driver while she was driving the wrong way down a one way street in Virginia, according to TMZ.
Virginia state police say the model was arrested and charged with DUI/maiming and driving the wrong way.
Mugshot: Melissa Hancock, a regular guest on Little Women: Atlanta, has been involved in a car accident in which a US Coast Guardsman died last Saturday
Police were called to the crash just after 2am. The driver of the other vehicle, 29-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Dill, was taken to Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital where he later died, according to Wavy.com.
The news site said Hancock is being held without bail in a Virginia Beach jail.
Hancock isn’t a main cast member of the Lifetime series which revolves around the lives of several short-stature women in Atlanta and is itself a spinoff of Little Women: LA.
Little women: Hancock is a regular guest of the Lifetime series which revolves around the lives of several short-stature women in Atlanta
Charges filed: TMZ said Hancock is being held without bail in a Virginia Beach jail
Hancock is also a fashion model, having strolled the catwalk at New York Fashion Week in 2015.
That year marked the first time the show featured short stature models.
‘Curvy women, six-foot-tall women, four-feet-tall women, we should all have the same opportunity to show what we got,’ Hancock told ET in her backstage interview at the show.
Catwalker: Hancock is also a fashion model, having strolled the catwalk at New York Fashion Week in 2015
Talented: ‘Curvy women, six-foot-tall women, four-feet-tall women, we should all have the same opportunity to show what we got,’ Hancock told ET in 2015