A 32-year-old Fairfield girl jailed Thursday for an alleged DUI collision that severely injured an 11-year-old woman is scheduled for arraignment within the coming days in Solano County Superior Court docket.
Elena Lindsey McGraw-Ogans was booked into Solano County Jail within the midafternoon on suspicion of DUI inflicting bodily damage, a felony; willful cruelty to a toddler, a misdemeanor; and driving with out insurance coverage, a violation of the Car Code, based on jail information. She faces arraignment at 1:30 p.m. Monday.
Fairfield police dispatchers started receiving calls at 8:30 a.m. a couple of youngster struck by a automobile. Officers and firefighter/paramedics responded to the realm of East Tabor and Blossom avenues, the place the collision occurred, in entrance of Grange Center Faculty.
The kid, who was not recognized due to her age, was transported to a neighborhood hospital with life-threatening accidents. The Solano County Coroner within the early afternoon confirmed the kid was severely injured however nonetheless alive.
“Whereas we're nonetheless early within the investigation, witnesses have acknowledged the kid was crossing within the crosswalk when she was struck,” Jennifer N. Brantley, the general public info officer for the Fairfield Police Division, wrote in a press assertion.
The division’s Site visitors Unit finally took over the investigation. Investigators interviewed McGraw-Ogans, who was driving a Chevrolet sedan.
From the interview, proof and investigation, she is believed to have been inebriated and medicines, Brantley added.
McGraw-Ogans was taken into custody on suspicion of felony DUI leading to damage, and youngster endangerment, as she was driving impaired whereas minor kids have been in her automobile, famous Brantley.
The roadway was cleared at 11:50 a.m., and the investigation stays ongoing, stated Brantley, including that no additional info was out there at press time Thursday.
“Within the meantime, please communicate to your kids in regards to the risks of auto visitors and stress the significance of pedestrian security and consciousness,” she wrote within the ready assertion. “We, once more, implore drivers to abide by visitors legal guidelines, particularly round colleges, close to crosswalks and within the neighborhoods surrounding them and to by no means, ever drive impaired. It takes nothing to look at visitors legal guidelines and doing so may probably save a life.
“Our ideas are with the household and buddies of this little woman, and we ask that you just hold them in your ideas as nicely,” added Brantley.