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Woman injured in San Luis Obispo, hit-and-run driver arrested

December 25, 2024

By KAREN VELIE

A driver crashed into a woman in San Luis Obispo on Friday afternoon and then fled the scene. Officers later arrested the suspected hit-and-run driver.

Shortly after 1 p.m. on Dec. 20, a 9-1-1 caller reported a vehicle had struck a pedestrian on Chorro Street. Officers arrived to find a 24-year-old woman lying near some parked vehicles with major, non-life threatening injuries.

During their investigation, officers identified 61-year-old Todd Nelson of Arroyo Grande as the suspect. Officers arrested Nelson and booked him in the San Luis Obispo County jail for felony hit-and-run causing great bodily injury and driving with a suspended license.

Investigators are asking anyone who witnessed and can provide additional information about the hit-and-run crash to contact Officer Josh Walsh at (805) 594-8052.

 


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Attempted murder with a suspended drivers license with a 2 ton vehicle deserves serious jail time.


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It was a hit and run with “non-life threatening injuries” to the victim, and most vehicles weigh around 2 tons… No need to escalate to such an extreme as “attempted murder”; chill out.


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Agreed. Driving with a suspended license should not factor into it. Not having a license is only wrong because we made up rules it violates, unlike seriously injuring someone and then fleeing which is immoral it is just wrong to do and everyone knows it. The legal terms for it are malum in se and malum prohibitum.


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