OGDEN — Police believe substance abuse may have played a role in an unusual circumstance in which a 54-year-old man died after being run over by an SUV around 3 p.m. Monday.
Police were not releasing the name of the man who was hit either in his own driveway or in the road near his home near the 700 block of Patterson Street in a Sullivan Hollow cul-de-sac. However, other media identified the victim as Brent Bodily and the driver of the SUV as Daniel Bradshaw.
Ogden Duty Lt. Shawn Hamblin said a 45-year-old man was found inside a blue GMC that hit the man and stopped only when he hit a light pole. When police arrived, he said, the vehicle was still on top of the dead man, who had been dragged about 15 feet.
The driver was found naked from the waist down, Hamblin said.
The lieutenant said the man was inappropriately touching himself in the groin area inside the SUV when police arrived.
“He was acting somewhat strange, a little paranoid,” Hamblin said of the driver.
“His mood fluctuated from calm to fairly aggressive.”
Hamblin said officers had put out an attempt-to-locate call on the vehicle two hours earlier because of a call to dispatchers about reckless driving.
The driver was arrested at the scene on suspicion of vehicular homicide, and police were questioning him Monday evening.
The incident remained under investigation Monday night.
Police were unsure whether the victim and the driver had known each other.
A witness said he saw the vehicle pull up into the home’s driveway just before the incident while, at the same time, the homeowner was taking out the garbage.
Mike Kisel, of Ogden, said he then went into a home across the street from the man who died.
When he heard a crash, he said, he looked over and saw the driver get out of his vehicle and run around it.
“He said he was his son,” Kisel said. “He was sitting on the ground screaming bloody murder. … He said, ‘That’s my dad. That’s my dad.’ ”
But Kisel said his former mother-in-law, whom he was visiting, has known the man who died for 20 years and had never seen the blue vehicle there before.
Kisel said he walked over to the vehicle and saw the body.
“When I looked at him, his face was gone. It was horrible. … He must have drug him down that steep driveway.”
Kisel said the dead man’s dog circled the scene and barked at police and the driver.
The body remained on the ground in front of the vehicle, covered by a sheet for several hours while police investigated.
Police were picking up trash, likely from the garbage can the man had been taking out, as they looked around the area.
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