POCATELLO — A man who police say caused a three-vehicle wreck on Friday night has been charged with driving under the infiuence and injury to a child while DUI
Derrick Willie Jim, 23, of Fort Hall, is currently being held at the Bannock County Jail and will be arraigned on Tuesday.
The crashed occurred at approximately 8 p.m. in the southbound lanes of Yellowstone Avenue just north of the Maple Street intersection. Pocatello police said Jim rear-ended two vehicles that were waiting at the intersection’s trafflc light.
Jim’s vehicle then rolled onto its roof, and he fled on foot, leaving behind a woman and a baby girl in the car. Police caught Jim shortly after the crash.
Jim, as well as the woman and the baby, were transported to Portneuf Medical Center to be treated for nonlife-threatening injuries. After Jim was treated, he was taken into police custody.
The names of the woman and the baby have not been released and their condition is currently unknown. No one in the other vehicles was injured.
Police have not released the names of anybody else involved in the wreck.
Police said Jim also had an outstanding warrant for a probation violation, stemming from an undisclosed crime committed in 2010.