A Vernon man was arrested last week after allegedly hitting a woman with his car while driving drunk.
Last Friday, officers from the Tooele City Police Department responded to 600 N. Main Street, where a woman said she had been hit by a pickup truck, which had then driven south, according to a probable cause statement.
An officer located and pulled over a vehicle that matched the description given by the woman, according to the statement, which was driven by Victor Manuel Molina-Perez, 29, of Vernon.
Molina-Perez told officers he had one beer before leaving Salt Lake to come back to Tooele, according to the statement, and knew he hit something with his truck but did not know if it was a person or a deer. He left the scene because he was scared but turned around to see what he had hit. According to the probable cause statement, he was stopped as he drove south away from the scene again.
Officers conducted field sobriety tests on Molina-Perez, which gave four standardized clues of possible intoxication, according to the statement. A portable breath test was also positive for intoxication, according to the statement, and Molina-Perez was arrested and booked into the Tooele County Detention Center.
According to the statement, a breath test given at the jail gave a result of .082, above the legal limit of .08.
The injured woman had scrapes and was complaining of shoulder pain, and was transported to Mountain West Medical Center, according to the statement.