Raritan Man Charged With DWI After Hitting Woman With Car at Boro Liquors

RARITAN, NJ - A Lindner Court resident was charged with driving while intoxicated following a motor vehicle accident involving a pedestrian at Boro Liquors, on Route 206, July 3.

According to police, they were dispatched to the store at 2:53 p.m., and told the vehicle involved had fled the area.

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While responding to the call, officers were given the registration of the fleeing vehicle and description of the driver. The driver was identified as Lorena Manobanda-Moreno, 38.

According to police, officers determined that Moreno had struck a parked car in the parking lot and entered the store. After exiting the store, police said, Moreno was confronted by a 48-year-old Somerville woman who witnessed the accident, and, when Moreno entered her vehicle to leave the scene and drove in reverse, the 48-year-old victim was struck.

The woman declined medical assistance at the scene.

Moreno was found at Lindner Court in the proximity of her vehicle. As they attempted to question her, she tried to run into her home by jumping over her balcony railing.

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Officers apprehended her, and she was placed under arrest.

Moreno was charged with driving while intoxicated, refusing to submit a breath sample, leaving the scene of an accident with injury, failing to report an accident, obstruction and resisting arrest.

She was taken to a local hospital for evaluation.

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