WASHINGTON TWP. — A township police officer was charged Friday in an August hit-and-run that left a Winslow Township man in a coma.

Officer Kelly Gunderson, 33, was charged with leaving the scene of a motor vehicle crash resulting in serious bodily injury.

Gunderson is accused of hitting 27-year-old Vance Banks around 1 a.m. Aug. 18 while he was walking beside Sicklerville Road in Winslow. According to a statement on the charges released by the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, Banks was walking home from his job at an independent security firm in the Camden County Lakeland Complex.

Gunderson allegedly drove off in a red Honda Accord after hitting him. Authorities say Banks was found unconscious in a parking lot on the 500 block of Sicklerville Road.

Camden County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Jason Laughlin said Banks remained in critical but stable condition at Cooper University Hospital.

Laughlin added that authorities are still investigating the incident, and additional charges are not out of the question.

He said Gunderson initially told them she thought she’d hit a deer. But she waited about 14 hours to report the crash to Winslow police, Laughlin said.

The Accord that she drove sustained “substantial damage to the passenger side,” he added.

Gunderson surrendered Friday at the state police Bellmawr barracks and was released after being issued a summons. She also surrendered her driver’s license, authorities said.

Washington Township police said Gunderson has been suspended without pay now that she’s been charged. She was originally suspended with pay, during the earlier stages of the investigation.

Gunderson served in the U.S. Air Force from 1998 to 2004. Soon after, she began as a special officer with Washington Township police.

She was hired as a full time officer in April 2006 and was assigned to the patrol division at the time of the alleged hit and run.