A Menlo Park woman was seriously injured after a suspected drunken driver intentionally plowed into her with a stolen car in Menlo Park on Friday night, police said.
Authorities said they arrested the driver, 34-year-old Maurice VasquezLopez of Redwood City, on a slew of tentative charges including attempted murder, drunken driving causing injury, assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and hit and run.
Authorities were called to Nealon Park just after 10:30 p.m. Friday for a report of a dispute between a neighbor and a man in a parked car, Menlo Park police said.
Just before officers got to the park VasquezLopez started driving away, then steered his car toward a 33-year-old Menlo Park woman who had been taking video of the argument and hit her, according to police. The woman is expected to survive.
VasquezLopez tried to leave the scene as police were arriving, authorities said, and rammed a squad car in the getaway. That crash immobilized his car and he was arrested. VasquezLopez also suffered injuries police said are not believed to be life-threatening.
Menlo Park police are still investigating the incident and asked anyone with information to call them at 650-330-6300.
