Driver is bound over in hit-run

The driver pushed the victim off the hood and drove away, witnesses said.
WARREN -- A 43-year-old man remains in Trumbull County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bond after being bound over to a grand jury on felony charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and failure to stop after an accident causing injury.
Edward S. Cleer of Howland-Wilson Road Southeast waived his preliminary hearing before municipal Judge Thomas P. Gysegem on Wednesday concerning the Jan. 2 accident that killed Edward Earl Haymon, 48, of Lane Drive Southwest. Cleer, who has pleaded innocent, is being represented by Atty. Philip M. Vigorito.
Cleer is accused of striking and killing Haymon, who was a pedestrian, at 11:42 p.m. on Fifth Street near Highland Avenue Southwest. Haymon was dead at the scene.
Haymon was walking east in the roadway near the curb, and the car Cleer was driving was also eastbound, police said. Cleer passed another car at high speed, returned to the lane of travel and hit Haymon, continuing about 190 feet before stopping and then fleeing, the accident report said.
What witnesses said
Witnesses at the scene told police the car Cleer was driving was moving erratically before the crash. After striking Haymon, the car stopped, and Cleer pushed Haymon off the hood of the car and drove away, witnesses told police. Police arrested Cleer later on Tod Avenue and took him back to the accident scene, where police said witnesses identified him.
Police said the car's windshield was crushed, with blood on the car and fabric impressions on the bumper. Cleer smelled strongly of alcohol, had slurred speech and was unsteady on his feet, Detective Michael Stabile said in an affidavit in support of a search warrant.
Judge Gysegem granted the search warrant at 4 a.m. Jan. 3 for a sample of Cleer's blood to determine its alcohol and drug content.
Stabile requested the warrant because Cleer had refused to submit to a blood-alcohol test. Cleer's blood-alcohol content was not given on the return on the search warrant filed in the municipal clerk of courts office.