Driver arrested after leaving and returning to I-65 crash site

Bartholomew County deputies are not buying a woman’s story of another driver of her vehicle who left the scene of a Saturday morning accident.

Instead, 23-year-old Suni Landero Escalante,  of Columbus was arrested on a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Deputies were called to the northbound lanes of Interstate 65 at about 4:51 a.m. Saturday after a vehicle allegedly rear-ended another vehicle, leaving one vehicle upside down. Witnesses say that a woman, later identified as Escalante, ran from the scene. Then returned shortly afterwards. They also said she was the only person in the vehicle.

However, Escalante claimed that the actual driver was picked up by a friend and had left the scene of the crash.