Warren police say missing woman suffered serious leg injury in Tuesday crash

June 7, 2017 at 9:59a.m.

WARREN

A woman Warren police listed three weeks ago as a missing person suffered a serious leg injury Thursday night while being hit by a car, but police say they don’t know where she went after the accident.

Elaine Shumate, 24, of Zanesville may have suffered a broken leg in the 6 p.m. accident on Parkman Road Northwest, but a police report says she was treated by ambulance personnel at the scene, and it’s unclear whether she went to a hospital.

The woman accused of hitting her, Bianca Nasidka, 19, of Belvedere Avenue Southeast, will be arraigned today in Warren Municipal Court on charges of felonious assault and child endangering. She was arrested at the apartment complex where the accident occurred.

Police said Nasidka and Shumate argued, then Nasidka drove backwards toward Shumate, hitting her and possibly causing a broken leg.

When police arrived, Shumate was holding her bleeding left left and yelling in pain. The car Nasidka was driving was badly damaged from being driven into a fire hydrant.

A witness said she heard the two women screaming at each other and then saw Shumate reaching into the passenger side of the car to get something. That’s when Nasidka put the car in reverse and “stepped on the gas,” running over Shumate and dragging her several feet until the car wrecked into the fire hydrant.

Nasidka tried to drive away, but the car was too badly damaged. Nasidka then went to the back seat of the car and removed her son, eight months old, who was not in a seat belt or child seat, the witness said. Nasidka then walked to the other side of the apartment complex with the boy, the witness said.

Ambulance personnel checked on the boy, and he appeared to be OK, police said.

Ambulance personnel also treated Shumate for her leg injuries. Sgt. Joe Kistler of the Warren Police Department said because Shumate is an adult, they would not have been able detain her regarding the missing persons report.