Father reported by injured daughter during suspected DUI hit-and-run
A 9 year-old reported her father from the car during a suspected DUI after she was injured in a hit-and-run collision in Yucca Valley.
On New Year’s Eve (December 31) at around 8:00 p.m., San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the intersection of Twentynine Palms Highway and Apache Trail in Yucca Valley for a report of a hit-and-run traffic collision. Preliminary information from the California Highway Patrol described the collision as a Porsche versus a Dodge Charger.
Deputies say that the involved driver fled the scene without stopping, rendering aid, or properly identifying themselves. Witnesses at the scene say they heard a young girl screaming from the car that fled the scene.
The Sheriff’s department says they received in an in-progress emergency call from what they described as a “terrified” nine year-old female. Deputies say the girl reported her father had been drinking and was involved in a traffic collision. Sheriff’s Dispatch determined the juvenile had sustained injuries and feared for her life. They obtained critical information from the juvenile and from a witness who had followed the hit-and-run driver, and were able to locate the suspect at his home in the 7400 block of Bannock Trail in Yucca Valley. The suspect has been identified as Robert Moran, 40 and was taken into custody.
Robert Moran was arrested on suspicion of DUI causing bodily injury, child abuse, and driving the wrong way on the highway. He was booked into the Morongo Basin Jail and has since been released on bail.
