CALLAWAY — A Callaway man has been arrested and charged after allegedly crashing into several obstacles along Tyndall Parkway and injuring his passengers before they escaped from the vehicle as he drove away, according to court documents.
Lance C. Elliott, 43, was arrested Monday on a warrant from a Jan. 1 hit-and-run incident near the 200 block of Tyndall Parkway. Two of Elliott’s three passengers were injured when he careened into several obstacles and then fled the area after the passengers escaped from the damaged vehicle, according to Bay County Sheriff’s Office arrest records.
Elliott was charged with operating a vehicle without a license and leaving the scene of a crash with injury when he was arrested Monday.
According to BCSO, Elliott was driving along Tyndall Parkway south of State 22 at about 9:30 p.m. when he lost control of the 2003 Dodge pickup truck and drove onto the median, deputies reported. Elliott overcorrected and struck a telephone pole and phone box on the west side of the road. He then backed up and attempted to drive off through the parking lot of a closed business and struck a water back-flow preventer, BCSO said.
Authorities reported Elliott then left, driving west in the eastbound lane of State 22, without making an effort to report the crash or render aid to his passengers — who’d escaped the vehicle after colliding with the telephone pole.
Elliott allegedly caused an estimated $12,000 in damage during the incident.
Elliot recently had posted bond for a separate criminal charge of driving without a license in December, according to court records.
Two of the three passengers were taken to a local hospital and treated for nonlife-threatening injuries, BCSO reported.