Kenneth Marion, 47, neither stopped at the scene nor reported the accident to police after he struck the leashed dog as the woman walked her small pets on East Shore Drive in late January, according to court records.
Marion, of 8 Rosewood Lane, Apt. 2, was placed on 10 months of court supervision after he pleaded guilty last week to striking an animal with a motor vehicle, a city ordinance violation.
While the case will be removed from his court record if he successfully completes the supervision, Marion must pay a $307 fine by mid-August. He also was fined $872 for the traffic violation of failing to give notice of an accident.
A misdemeanor charge of reckless driving was dismissed with his guilty pleas to the other charges.
Marion drove away without explaining to a 72-year-old woman why his car swerved across two-lane East Shore as he approached her from behind and struck one of her two shih tzu dogs as she walked them shortly after 6:30 a.m. on Jan. 27, police said.
“It was a horrible incident,” said Pekin Police Public Information Officer Mike Eeten.
The woman, walking along the curb on the west side of the road about a block south of its intersection with Court Street, pulled her leashed pets closer to her as she heard Marion’s northbound car approach from behind. She turned to see Marion “swerve” towards her, Eeten said.
Marion drove over and killed one of the dogs, leaving the woman and her other dog uninjured. He drove on, continuing in the southbound lane, until he jumped its curb along the street, which has no sidewalk, and struck a city no-parking sign.
That collision tore off a fog light cover from his car that held a serial number, Eeten said. Police used it to determine the make, model and year of the car, which the woman said was red.
Within hours police found Marion’s Dodge Avenger with front-end damage parked outside his apartment several blocks south of the crash location.
Eeten said Marion showed no outward signs of intoxication when police found and arrested him at his home. He was released on $150 bond pending his prosecution.
Was he given a blood alcohol test???
(Pekin Daily Times - April 22, 2015)
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