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Ruvalcaba Booked in Spanish Fork Crash
Maria Del Rocio Morales Ruvalcaba, 51, was booked into the Utah County Jail on a third-degree felony charge of leaving a crash that critically injured a man in Spanish Fork. Police said she told them she thought she had hit a bicycle.
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A booking on a leaving-the-scene felony is not a finding that she knew she hit a person. That question is what a court has to decide. The man is in critical condition, and the charge is about leaving him there.
Maria Del Rocio Morales Ruvalcaba, 51, was booked Tuesday into the Utah County Jail on a third-degree felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident involving serious injury.
Police said a 25-year-old man was crossing 800 East at 300 North in Spanish Fork with three other people on Nov. 4, at about 5:53 p.m., when a northbound van hit him. He was nearly across the road. He was taken to Utah Valley Hospital and was still in critical condition on Tuesday.
Police said Ruvalcaba told them she had been in an accident, thought she had hit a bicycle, and did not stop. She said she went to a business and then home. Investigators said the van had a broken windshield on the passenger side.
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