A HAMPTON Park man has been charged after a car struck down a pedestrian in the city last week.
Police said a car mounted the kerb and footpath on Collins Street last Friday at about 3.30am, hitting a pedestrian and colliding with a large marble column.
The driver then fled the scene in the car.
Police said the incident allegedly occurred shortly after an altercation between two groups of people outside a nightclub in Flinders Lane.
The pedestrian, a Blackburn man aged in his early 20s, sustained bruising and a gash to his head and was transported by ambulance to St Vincent’s Hospital for treatment.
A 37-year-old Hampton Park man was taken to Melbourne West Police Station shortly after the incident after being intercepted by police in a 1980s model Ford Falcon station wagon.
He was charged with one count of conduct endangering life, driving in a manner dangerous, assault with a weapon, leaving the scene of an accident, failing to render assistance and exceeding the legal prescribed concentration of alcohol.
He was bailed to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 31 August.
Hampton Park man charged on city hit-run
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