Erie, PA : Erie man charged in stolen truck crash on May, Tuesday, 23rd 2017

An 83-year-old man remained hospitalized on Tuesday as an Erie man accused of striking him with a work truck he had stolen stayed in the Erie County Prison on a list of criminal charges in the Monday afternoon incident.

Jacob D. Doss, 22, of the first block of East 30th Street, faces nine charges, including robbery of a motor vehicle, aggravated assault by vehicle and accidents involving death or personal injury, in an incident that started in the area of 17th and State streets late Monday afternoon and ended when the stolen truck crashed into a surgery center on Erie’s west side.

Police charge that a man driving a Mayer Brothers Construction Co. work truck was traveling south on State Street at about 4:40 p.m. Monday when he said a man walking west across State Street turned around, jumped in the travel lane and onto the truck, striking his head on the windshield and cracking the glass. The driver said he got out of the truck and the pedestrian, identified as Doss, jumped into the passenger side of the truck and slid over to the driver’s side, according to investigators.

Doss stated to the person who had the truck that he “needs to save his second nephew.” Doss also said, “(Expletive) you” and “I’ll kill you” to the victim before driving off in the truck heading south, according to information in the criminal complaint filed by Erie police Patrolman Chris Lawrence.

Doss struck the 83-year-old pedestrian in the 200 block of West 26th Street, and also hit an occupied vehicle on West 26th Street, before the stolen truck crashed into the east side of the Saint Vincent Surgery Center, 312 W. 25th St., according to police. The truck crashed into an office window “where employees of the office sit and work,” Lawrence wrote in the complaint.

Doss fled the truck with a self-inflicted cut, and with injuries from the crash, and traveled to Saint Vincent Health Center. Doss was taken into police custody from the hospital’s emergency room at 8:40 p.m. Monday, according to the Erie police arrest sheet.

The pedestrian who was struck was taken to UPMC Hamot for treatment. He was listed in fair condition on Tuesday, according to detectives.

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Erie man charged in stolen truck crash