A driver who crashed her Jeep early yesterday morning is accused of leaving the scene then when a deputy located her walking down a county road draped in a blanket, she threw off the blanket and ran.

Danielle L. Johnson, 39, Elsmere, Ky., was arrested by Deputy Camron Frye of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department on Thursday morning, February 17.

Johnson was the driver of a gray 2018 Jeep Renegade with a Kentucky license plate that wound up in the ditch in the area of West State Road 54 and West County Road 250 North early Thursday morning.

GCSD Deputy Devan Goad was dispatched to the scene at 5:09 a.m. when a resident in the area called 911 and told Greene County Dispatch that a woman who appeared to have been in an accident was on his porch. He said she was not injured but she seemed “to be off.” Deputy Frye then headed in the same direction to assist Deputy Goad. The caller also said the woman had a white blanket wrapped around her. While the deputies were on the way, they were advised the woman had left the porch. Officer Zachary Goad of the Linton Police Department also responded to assist Deputy Goad on the scene.

Deputy Goad arrived and located the Jeep. Nobody was around but there were ruts in the grass and the Jeep was not operable. A tow truck was called.

While they were processing the scene, Deputy Frye continued to search for the woman and when he was northbound on North County Road 1225 West near West 200 North, about a mile southeast of the crash scene, he saw a woman draped in a blanket walking south on N. CR 1225 W. He stopped and activated the rear emergency lights but when he got out of the vehicle, the woman had walked past him and kept on walking.

Deputy Frye identified himself and the woman looked back at him and turned toward him then immediately turned away and started running. Deputy Frye turned his vehicle around and followed as the woman continued to run. She then threw off the blanket, leaving it in the roadway, and continued to run.

When the woman ran southwest into the yard of a residence, Deputy Frye stopped to pursue on foot through the yard. He yelled for her to stop several times and continued to identify himself as law enforcement. After he rounded a corner of the residence, he yelled for her to stop or be tased. At that point, she stopped running and put her hands in the air.

The woman, later identified as Johnson, said she had not been drinking, had not been doing any drugs and didn’t know why she ran but she did say she was cold and wet – it was raining at the time. Once they were back at the patrol vehicle, she allegedly became verbally confrontational about having to use the bathroom and attempted to walk past Officer Goad.

Johnson allegedly resisted getting into the patrol vehicle and put her feet on the dash and stiffened her legs then when the deputy tried to remove her feet from the dash, she allegedly threatened to kick the officer.

When asked what happened to the Jeep, Johnson allegedly said she had hit several bumps. She also said she had knocked on doors but nobody would help her.

Johnson was booked into the Greene County Jail at 7:01 a.m. with bond set at $2,500 cash only. As of late Friday, she had not yet posted bond and was still in custody.

When she appears in Greene Superior Court for her initial hearing, she’ll be facing charges of:

Resisting law enforcement – knowingly/intentionally forcibly resists, a Class A misdemeanor,
Intimidation, a Class A misdemeanor, and
Leaving the scene of an accident, a Class B misdemeanor.