Here’s what we know about Clay County crash that left woman injured

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – News4Jax is moving to wide up disorder surrounding a clang involving a operator and pedestrian successful Clay County.

We’re going to instrumentality you done what we learned each time we’ve been reporting connected this communicative and what we’re inactive moving to learn.

On Sunday night, the Highway Patrol released surveillance video and photos of a operator who they said struck and injured a pistillate walking crossed Blanding Boulevard astatine Belmont Avenue wrong the crosswalk aboriginal Friday morning. Troopers described the clang arsenic a hit-and-run and asked for the nationalist to supply immoderate accusation astir the conveyance and operator involved. They besides said the pedestrian was recovering astatine home.

Here are the 3 tweets astir the clang that FHP sent retired Sunday evening (editor’s note: The video whitethorn beryllium hard to watch):

News4Jax reported connected this successful our newscasts connected Sunday and Monday and online.

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On Tuesday, one of our reporters interviewed the pistillate who was hit, Monica DiMaio. DiMaio, a 39-year-old parent of two, told News4Jax that she ended up going to Orange Park Medical Center and has a breached genu cap, hep and aggregate vertebrae.

“I mislaid my glasses erstwhile I got deed truthful I truly couldn’t see. Didn’t cognize wherever my telephone was. To beryllium honest, I didn’t cognize wherever I was, I was truly confused,” she recounted. “I was truly confused astir the full situation. I saw the headlights arsenic I was crossing, conscionable arsenic the car was hitting me. I didn’t truly person overmuch clip to react.”

She besides said aft she was hit, she spoke with idiosyncratic and asked that idiosyncratic to instrumentality her to her home.

“I’m not definite who I spoke to. I don’t cognize who I spoke to, but I asked whoever it was conscionable to instrumentality maine to my location due to the fact that I unrecorded a 4th of a mile from that state station, and I wasn’t hurting yet and I was precise confused astir what was going on,” DiMaio said. “I asked whoever it was if they could conscionable instrumentality maine to my house, and they brought maine to my driveway, and close astir erstwhile I was getting retired of the car, I realized that I can’t, I can’t basal up, I can’t bash anything.”

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On Wednesday, FHP sent retired a bid of tweets, saying it had identified and located the operator and conveyance successful the lawsuit owed to “extensive investigative techniques by aggregate agencies.”

“The operator is afloat cooperating and assisting successful the investigation,” the Highway Patrol said. “Due to the circumstances successful this case, charges are being reviewed and volition beryllium issued successful the precise adjacent future.”

FHP went connected to say: “After crash, operator stopped and rendered assistance to pedestrian. Pedestrian requested to beryllium taken location and operator complied. However, it is inactive required to study a crash.”

Here are the 3 tweets that FHP sent astir the lawsuit connected Wednesday — nary of which referred to the incidental arsenic a hit-and-run crash:

News4Jax past called FHP for clarity and to corroborate the accusation successful the tweets. We near a message, and FHP aboriginal confirmed that the operator who deed the pistillate did halt to assistance and took her home.

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The surveillance video tweeted retired Sunday by FHP did not amusement the operator stopping to assistance the pistillate who was hit. On Thursday, News4Jax asked FHP wherefore the afloat surveillance video was not released connected Sunday, and Master Sgt. Dylan Bryan, with the FHP Office of Public Affairs, said they got the video from different bureau and they aboriginal got the longer-form video. Bryan said besides it was chiefly due to the fact that they were looking for accusation connected the conveyance and operator astatine the time. Bryan said FHP volition get america the 2nd portion of the video, showing the operator consoling the pistillate connected the ground.

Here’s however the FHP spokesperson said it happened: The pistillate went done the crosswalk, she was looking astatine her phone, the operator ran a reddish light, helium deed her, she fell, helium stopped the car, helium went to assistance her, helium consoled her, helium asked if she wanted exigency response, she said no, instrumentality maine home, helium took her home. Bryan said that astir an hr later, she decided she needed aesculapian assistance and went to the hospital.

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News4Jax is besides reaching backmost retired to the pistillate who was deed to spot if she’s alert that the idiosyncratic who took her location was the operator who struck her.

FHP said that it’s inactive being investigated arsenic a hit-and-run, and that some radical — the operator and pedestrian — could look charges due to the fact that radical are expected to study a clang similar this. No 1 has been charged astatine this time.

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