The driver accused of striking and injuring a 5-year-old boy in Washougal last month pleaded not guilty to hit-and-run injury and driving with a suspended license.
Marsha Yumi Perry, 36, of Washougal was arraigned Friday in Clark County Superior Court.
She is accused of driving a pickup truck that struck the boy shortly before 6:15 p.m. April 24 in the 1500 block of North 22nd Street. The child had emerged from a driveway riding a plastic tricycle.
Perry’s trial is scheduled to begin June 22.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed in Superior Court, the boy was struck by the driver’s side front bumper and knocked off his tricycle onto the road. A witness said the driver, later identified by police as Perry, got out and checked on the boy, then fled.
Washougal police Officer Kyle Day and his K-9 partner, Ranger, tracked Perry to a field south of the 1800 block of Woodburn Road, where they reportedly found her hiding in a shallow hole, according to court documents.
