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Westland woman charged after deliberately crashing into multiple cars, seriously injuring pedestrian

Victim was pinned underneath vehicle

April Marie Graves, 43, of Westland, has been charged with deliberately crashing her vehicle into multiple cars, injuring a 31-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man.

The incident occurred on Saturday (Aug. 10) at 7:17 p.m. in the area of N. Wildwood Street and Florence Avenue, where officers located the man pinned underneath a vehicle.

Officials said members of the Westland Fire Department arrived on the scene and removed the man from under the vehicle before transporting him to a Metro Detroit hospital for treatment.

Allegedly, Graves was intoxicated and driving at a high rate of speed when she crashed into multiple vehicles on Wildwood Street.

Officials say the man and woman victims were unloading items from their vehicle when Graves drove her car into them, pinning the man between two vehicles.

The 43-year-old woman has been charged with two counts of assault with intent to murder, two counts of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, one count of operating while intoxicated causing serious bodily impairment, one count of reckless driving causing serious bodily injury, two counts of felonious assault, two counts of malicious destruction of property over $1,000, two counts of malicious destruction of personal property over $1,000, and one count of open alcohol in a motor vehicle.

Graves was arraigned in the 18th District Court.


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