The family of a U.S. Postal Service worker killed in a 2004 hit and run has reached a $125,000 settlement with the driver who caused his death.

Terrance Wayne Dickerson, 41, pleaded guilty in January 2005 to felony hit and run in the death of John William Edmonds Jr. and received a five-year prison sentence, suspended after he served six months.

Driving in the early hours of June 6, 2004, Dickerson struck Edmonds as the 52-year-old was walking at the intersection of Norris Drive and Andrews Road Northwest in Roanoke. Dickerson panicked and drove off. He returned about half an hour later and turned himself in to police.

Edmonds died in a hospital about two months later.

In the settlement agreement approved this week by Roanoke Circuit Court Judge William Broadhurst, $100,000 from Dickerson's insurance and $25,000 from Edmonds' underinsured motorist policy will be used to pay medical expenses, funeral costs and legal fees. About $40,000 will go to Edmonds' wife and three children.

-- Mike Allen