Anchorage Pedestrian seriously injured after hitting at the crosswalk

Anchorage police arrested a driver who says he hit a pedestrian on Friday afternoon in a hit collision, then tried to wash the signals of the impact of her car.

Judicial records show that Anthony Roberts, 32, is accused of first degree assault, leaving the scene and manipulating physical evidence.

Police said in A statement They responded just before 2:15 pm on Friday to the collision, at the intersection of Muldoon Road with Duben Avenue. There, they found a pedestrian with injuries that threaten life. Police said the pedestrian is a woman, but they have not released their name.

According to a loading document in the case, it was directed to the west through Muldoon at a crosswalk with a green walk sign at the time of the collision. Police say that Roberts called the dispatators shortly after, but “he did not correctly identify the location of the accident and did not admit that he was the one who hit the pedestrian.”

“The defendant left the area just after APD arrived on the scene and did not talk to any police officer,” police said.

The officers found Roberts at home, according to registration in their Buick. Police say that he had changed clothes after the collision, and the surveillance video in the area recorded him washing his car after he returned.

“When APD contacted (Roberts), he said he washed their clothes because they were dirty and had spilled water after the collision,” police said. “(He) said he washed his vehicle to facilitate the police to see him and remove the dirt of the vehicle.”

Police saw Hood and frontal damage to the vehicle consisting with a pedestrian strike, they said.

Roberts was arrested Monday at the Correctional Complex of Anchorage.

Police spokesman Christopher Barraza said that the woman beaten in the collision remained in a local hospital in critical condition on Sunday night.

Anchorage had a large number of pedestrians killed by cars last year, with 15 deaths. So far this year, drivers have killed three pedestrians in the city.