Woman charged with OWI after male hit on sidewalk on West 16th Street
Mar 26, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A 44-year-old woman has been arrested after a hit-and-run seriously injured a seriously injured a male on Saturday afternoon on West 16th Street.
Court documents say Kevin Penelton, who was hit while walking on the sidewalk, was taken to Riley Hospital for Children wi
th broken bones. A police report did not give his age. His mother told police that Penelton was on his way back home from buying doughnuts.
The crash was reported to Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department just after 2 p.m. Saturday along West 16th Street near Winfield Avenue. That’s a few blocks west of the White River bridge.
A witness to the hit-and-run took a photo of a fleeing black 2014 Ford Taurus sedan and its license plate, which helped police find Tiona Renee Hankins.
Officers found the sedan outside a home in the 300 block of West 25th Street, and Hankins was sitting in the driver’s seat. An officer asked Hankins to get out of the car, and immediately smelled alcoholic beverages on her breath and “unsteady balance,” the police report filed in court says.
A breath test returned a breath alcohol concentration of 0.350. Indiana’s threshold for driving drunk is 0.08. She took a blood test, but the result was not included in the police report filed with the court.
Hankins faces lower-level felony charges: one count of leaving the scene of an accident, and two counts of causing serious bodily injury when operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Online records show Hankins was formally charged Wednesday in Marion Superior Court 20. Magistrate Terrance Tharpe set a $40,000 surety bond, and ordered she be held for alcohol monitoring. Hankins was no longer listed as being in the Marion County jail on Wednesday night.
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