ROY, Utah — A man who allegedly struck a woman who was crossing a Roy intersection and then fled the scene turned himself in on Thursday, a day after the hit-and-run incident.
Jose Salgado-Rivera, 28, is active duty military and turned himself in to a military official, who then called Roy police. Saldago-Rivera was arrested and booked into jail on a charge of third-degree leaving the scene of a crime.
Samantha Sandoval went outside to investigate a commotion outside her home on Wednesday and found the woman lying in a gutter.
“She had trauma to her face,” said Sandoval. “On one of her wrists, there was bone sticking out.”
Woman struck crossing Roy road, driver flees the scene:
Roy Police say a 77-year-old woman was simply crossing the intersection here when she became the victim of a hit-and-run.
“With this lady here, that’s somebody’s grandma,” said Jeremiah Rose, another neighbor who witnessed the aftermath. “To be the kind of person that can hit her and just take off is pretty ridiculous.”
Neighbors tell us driving behaviors in the area have become problematic - the 30-mile-per-hour speed limit certainly isn’t being obeyed.
“There’s constantly people hauling 50, 55 down this road,” Rose said.
In this case, a simple routine left an elderly woman in serious condition at a local hospital.
“She walks here daily - sometimes numerous times a day just around the block,” Sandoval said.
“She’s just out here trying to stay healthy and can’t even do that,” Rose added.
It’s struck new fear into these locals.
“I worry about my grandbabies,” said Sandoval. “I have them daily, I pick them up from school. I don’t like them out here, especially on this corner.”
As the neighbors pray for the woman and her loved ones tonight, they also hope the driver decides to do the right thing.
“Accidents happen,” said Rose. “You should’ve just stopped and you didn’t - and it’s in the past. But still turn yourself in, it’s only going to get worse from here if you don’t.”
Four blocks away, at the intersection of 4400 South and 1900 West, an 11-year-old boy was alsostruck by a vehicle while in the crosswalk on a scooter just two weeks prior. Jayson was transported via helicopter.
