A motorist was traveling northbound in the right lane on Nutley Street, S.W., on Feb. 10 at 2 a.m. and was slowing to make a right onto Kingsley Road, S.W., when a vehicle traveling in the left lane crossed into the right lane and struck the rear of the motorist’s vehicle, Vienna police said.
The driver of the striking vehicle fled northbound on Nutley Street, police said.
Vienna police located the vehicle and initiated a traffic stop near Nutley Street, N.W., and Lincoln Street, N.W. The driver failed to comply with the officer’s directions, and the officer detected signs of impairment, police said.
The officer placed the man under arrest and he allegedly became combative, police said. Rescue personnel responded to assess the man and took him to an area hospital for evaluation, where he continued to be uncooperative and aggressive with the medics and hospital staff, police said.
As the officers were preparing to take the man from the hospital to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, he continued to resist arrest and allegedly assaulted the officers and damaged the cruiser, police said.
Police took the 33-year-old Gainesville man to the detention center, where authorities charged him with felony hit-and-run, felony assault on a police officer, driving while intoxicated, obstruction of justice, destruction of property and refusal to comply with police in a drunk-driving-related matter.
