Pedestrian hospitalized after being struck by allegedly impaired driver in Terre Haute

 

   

                        Whitaker/ Vigo Co. Jail


By Lucy Perry
Indiana Central News

A pedestrian was hospitalized with serious injuries after being struck by a vehicle in Terre Haute Tuesday evening.


The driver, Donald J. Whitaker, 34, of Terre Haute, was booked into the Vigo County Jail around 9:30 p.m. He is charged with operating with a controlled substance causing serious injury, a level 5 felony.

Emergency crews responded incident at the intersection of 35th Street and Wabash Avenue around 5 p.m. Further information on the victim has not been released.

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