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SPANISH FORK — A Spanish Fork police officer and a pedestrian were injured after a driver believed to be under the influence of alcohol ran a stop sign Friday night, police said.
The crash occurred at the intersection of 630 West and Center Street.
The officer was driving on a road with no stop signs around 10:40 p.m. when a driver ran a stop sign on a cross street and hit the officer's vehicle, according to Utah Highway Patrol Cpl. Tara Wahlberg.
"Then, they continued through the intersection and hit a pedestrian on the other side of it," Wahlberg said, adding that the pedestrian was pinned to a tree.
Both the pedestrian and officer were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, and the officer was later released from the hospital. The current condition of the pedestrian is unknown.
The driver of the car that ran the stop sign was identified as Harmonica Lee Marshall, 19, of Springville. A responding officer said he could "detect faint odors of an alcoholic beverage coming from her breath in the open air," according to a police booking affidavit.
Field sobriety tests were conducted and Marshall was arrested for investigation of DUI. She later consented to a breath test that, according to the affidavit, showed she had a blood-alcohol level of .120% — over two times Utah's legal limit of .05%.
Marshall was also booked into the Utah County Jail for investigation of use of alcohol by a restricted driver and failure to yield to a stop sign.
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