LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — A Clearlake man has been arrested for felony hit and run after severely injuring a pedestrian on Wednesday.
Oscar Rosas, 45, turned himself in a day after the crash, which occurred Wednesday night on Highway 20 east of Bridge Arbor Drive near Upper Lake.
The pedestrian who was injured was identified as 27-year-old Omar Romero of Lakeport, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake Area office.
The agency said its officers responded to a report of a hit and run collision between a vehicle and pedestrian shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday, during rainy and dark conditions.
The CHP said its preliminary investigation indicated a blue SUV struck Romero, who was walking south and was within the eastbound lanes of Highway 20.
After hitting Romero, the vehicle fled the scene on eastbound Highway 20, the CHP said.
Romero was transported to Sutter Lakeside Hospital in Lakeport with major injuries, which the CHP said included various blunt force trauma and a broken neck.
The CHP’s initial investigation efforts led officers to an address associated with the blue SUV, but no vehicle was located at that time.
At 5:25 p.m. Thursday, the CHP’s Ukiah Communications Center received a phone call from Rosas, who wanted to turn himself in to law enforcement, stating that his blue 2007 Ford Escape was involved in the collision.
The CHP said its officers responded to Rosas’ address in Clearlake where the Ford Escape was located with damage consistent with the hit and run traffic collision.
Rosas subsequently was arrested for felony hit and run just after 6:30 p.m. and transported and booked into Lake County Jail, the CHP said.
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Clearlake man arrested for felony hit and run
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