WICHITA FALLS, TX (05/03/2015) — An 18-year-old drunk driver has been arrested after fleeing the scene of an accident that left a motorcyclist seriously injured.
According to the Wichita Falls Police Department, 41-year-old James West was riding his motorcycle last Saturday night on the Sheppard Access Road near the intersection of Industrial Boulevard when Tanner Hutchins, 18, struck his motorcycle with his Nissan Titan pickup truck and failed to stop at the scene of the crash.
After the accident, James West was rushed to United Regional Hospital then flown via medical helicopter to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth where he underwent back surgery and a leg amputation.
Authorities say that Hutchins has since been arrested and charged with intoxicated assault as well as causing an accident involving personal injury.
