WEST HAVEN — A hit-and-run crash that critically injured a pedestrian on Sunday resulted in a man’s arrest several hours later.

A Subaru Impreza was northbound on 1900 West at 2550 South at about 1:30 a.m. when the car, making a left turn, hit the pedestrian, Utah Highway Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Cameron Roden said Monday.

A UHP trooper and several Weber County Sheriff’s Office deputies went to a home in Hooper several hours later and arrested Emerson Martin Jr., 61, on suspicion of third-degree felony failure to remain at the scene of a crash involving serious injury, according to a UHP probable cause statement.

Martin allegedly told a trooper that he was not sure what his car hit, but later in the interview he allegedly admitted to hitting a person with the car. He said he saw the man lying on the road and “left because he panicked,” the arrest affidavit said.

The trooper examined the car at the Hooper home and saw that the driver’s side of the window was shattered.

The victim, a 40-year-old man, was expected to survive, the UHP said.

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