A 19-year-old Lincoln man was charged with a felony Monday, three days after he allegedly got into and walked away from a car crash that sent four to the hospital.
Bobby Joe Motton III, 4800 N. 15th St. No. 106, was driving south on 44th Street in a white Toyota Camry Friday morning, ran the stop sign at Adams Street and hit 43-year-old Douglas Oliverius, who was driving a pickup truck west on Adams, Officer Kiefer Hyland said in an affidavit to jail Motton.
The crash broke two vertebrae in Oliverius’ neck, requiring surgery, Hyland said.
The 20-year-old Lincoln man who was riding in the front passenger seat of Motton’s car broke his right ankle, he said. Two Omaha girls, ages 17 and 16, suffered minor cuts and scrapes to their arms and faces.
Paramedics took Oliverius and Motton’s three passengers to Bryan West Campus, Hyland said.
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A witness told police that, after the crash, he talked to a man walking away from the crash who said he had been driving the car and everyone inside was OK, the officer said. The man had a large cut on the top of his head and blood was flowing down his face.
The man then walked south for two houses, looked at his feet and walked in circles as if confused, the witness told police, Hyland said.
Investigators eventually showed the witness a photo lineup and Motton was identified as the man the witness saw, he said.
That night, Motton went to Bryan West Campus for help, where officers found him at about 10:15, Hyland said. They jailed him on suspicion of leaving the scene of an injury accident.
On Monday, Lancaster County Judge Laurie Yardley set Motton’s bond at $25,000, court records show. He hadn’t posted the $2,500 needed to get out of jail by Tuesday afternoon.