81-year-old headed to Pick 'N Save 'thought she hit something' on the way and kept going — it was a man she sent 15 feet into the air: Police

A Wisconsin pistillate charged with being the operator successful a hit-and-run incidental allegedly told constabulary astatine the clip that she "thought she deed something."

Janet Wolfgram, 81, was charged with hit-and-run involving wounded successful transportation with a car crash that took spot connected Feb. 8. According to a transgression ailment obtained by section ABC affiliate WISN, Wolfgram was down the wheel of her reddish Chevrolet Cruze erstwhile she turned near astatine an intersection and deed an unnamed pedestrian, sending him flying implicit the hood of her car. The antheral survived, but was injured.

Police said a witnesser followed Wolfgram's car to a adjacent Pick 'N Save store portion different witnesser called constabulary arsenic the unnamed antheral laic successful the street, clutching his leg. He told constabulary helium was deed by a car portion helium "had a locomotion sign," and the operator ne'er stopped.

According to the complaint, Waukesha Police Department officers arrived astatine the Pick 'N Save parking batch conscionable arsenic Wolfgram was getting retired of her car. Officers approached her and asked her if she knew she had been successful an accident. Police said, "She thought she deed thing but wasn't definite what." When she was informed that she had deed a person, she was "quite distraught," according to reporting connected the ailment by section Fox affiliate WITI.

Surveillance cameras caught the incidental connected video, showing Wolfgram's reddish Cruze driving done the intersection and striking the man, sending him flying implicit her hood arsenic she continued driving. Police said the antheral was launched 15 to 20 feet from wherever helium had been successful the intersection. WISN reported that a state presumption attendant who knew the antheral said helium was walking with assistance.

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Wolfgram was arrested by Waukesha Police Department officers and taken to a substation. She was booked into jailhouse and released with tickets. A transgression complaint of hit-and-run involving wounded was filed connected Wednesday. Her adjacent tribunal quality is scheduled for March 31.