PADUCAH, KY – Suspect(s): Hunter P. Wahl, 36, of South 21st Street, charged with two counts of
first-degree wanton endangerment, driving under the influence, leaving the scene
of an accident/failure to render aid, two counts of first-degree criminal mischief,
careless driving and third-degree criminal mischief
A woman was charged after causing a collision and leaving the scene, then
crashing her Yukon into a house several blocks away.
Police were called at 12:15 p.m. Saturday to a crash with injuries at 28th and
Jefferson streets. While enroute, officers were told that one of the vehicles, a white
SUV, was leaving the scene. When officers arrived, they found a 2006 Saturn with
damage to the front.
The driver said he was southbound on 28th Street and his light turned green,
so he proceeded into the intersection. He said a white SUV ran the red light on
Jefferson Street and the vehicles collided. The SUV then hit a street sign before
stopping briefly on Jefferson Street. A resident saw what had happened, and took
several pictures of the SUV before it fled the scene. Both the driver and his
passenger were taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries.
Less than five minutes later, officers were dispatched to 2016 Guthrie
Avenue where a white SUV had run off the road at a high rate of speed, hit a utility
pole, hit a curb and went airborne and crashed into the corner of a duplex. Two
residents were inside, one of them in the room the SUV crashed into. Neither was
reported injured.
When officers arrived, they found Hunter Wahl lying across the front seats
of the SUV, obviously intoxicated. She was taken to Baptist Health Paducah, where
she told officers she had been drinking at a friend’s home and made a mistake by
driving home. Due to her medical condition, she was issued citations on the
above-listed charges and released to the care of the hospital.
