A Leesburg woman has been tracked down after allegedly hitting a motorcyclist and fleeing the scene.
A Leesburg police officer was dispatched at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday to the scene of a hit-and-run accident at the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 27 and County Road 33.
The motorcyclist was receiving medical treatment from an off-duty Clermont Fire Department member who had stopped at the scene. The injured man was flown to an area trauma center.
Two witnesses told the officer that an older model pickup truck rear-ended the motorcycle the intersection causing the rider to fall from the bike and land in the roadway. The motorcycle ended up more than 211 feet from the point of impact, according to the arrest report. A Leesburg Fire Department lieutenant who was at the scene received a tip that the truck involved in the accident had turned into the Cypress Creek Mobile Home Park about a mile north of the crash site.
Officers converged on the mobile home park and found a black truck with heavy front end damage which was leaking fluids. The truck was in the driveway of a home in the 28800 block of Hubbard Street.
When the officers made contact with the owner of the truck he told them that his ex-girlfriend, 40-year-old Katrina N. Williamson, had been using the truck. He said that he came out of the residence when she pulled into the driveway and asked her what happened to the truck. She was very frantic and walked right past him the man said.
A neighbor had a security camera and showed the officers a video of the woman pulling the truck into the driveway and going into the residence. Another neighbor had been sitting on her front porch when she saw Williamson drive up in the heavily damaged truck.
The officers were given permission to enter the residence so that they could find Williamson who had locked herself into a bathroom where she was found hiding. When questioned, she told the officers that someone else had driven her to the Hubbard Street residence. When told of the video footage showing her arriving in the truck and that an eyewitness saw her arrival, she admitted she had been driving the rruck.
A records check revealed that she had lost her driver’s license due to a DUI conviction in West Virginia and was driving a vehicle that had not been properly registered. Williamson was charged with leaving the scene of a traffic crash involving personal injury, operating a motor vehicle with a revoked license and failure to properly register a motor vehicle. She was transported to the Lake County Jail where bond was set at $6,500.
Williamson has a previous conviction for driving while revoked as well as drug possession convictions.
