NORTHAMPTON, MASS. (WHDH) - An Easthampton man is facing criminal charges after police say he intentionally struck his girlfriend with his car in Northampton on Thursday.
Officers responding to a report of a pedestrian struck by a car on Florence Road found an injured 26-year-old woman, according to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office.
The woman was transported to Cooley Dickinson Hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Following an investigation, Joseph C. Adams, 30, was arrested on charges of assault and battery by me ans of a dangerous weapon (motor vehicle), leaving the scene of a crash with personal injury, and misleading a criminal investigation.
He was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail pending his arraignment Friday in Northampton District Court.
No additional information was immediately released.
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