ANSONIA — Police charged a 49-year-old city resident Monday in connection to a July 2021 crash that sent a pedestrian to the hospital with serious injuries.
Roland Collier is charged with first-degree assault, reckless driving, engaging in pursuit, first-degree reckless endangerment, evading responsibility and third-degree criminal mischief.
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Collier was being held in jail on separate criminal charges in Massachusetts. He is due in Superior Court in Derby on April 26 to answer to the local charges.
According to Ansonia police, officers attempted to pull Collier over on July 16, 2021 at about 2 p.m. on North Main Street. Collier, driving an Audi, took off at a high rate of speed — even though police said they didn’t give chase — then lost control of his vehicle near Third Street. Collier, traveling in the wrong travel lane, struck a Hyundai, and then, once on the sidewalk a fire hydrant, a tree — and a person. The victim was taken to the hospital.
Police are still looking for a male passenger from Collier’s vehicle. That person has not been identified.
