Driver Hits Parked Car At Market District In Solon

SOLON, OH — An impaired driver hit a car in the parking lot of Market District and then drove off, callers told police on Monday afternoon.

Police were called the grocery store at about 3:25 p.m. on April 15. Witnesses said a car in the parking lot hit a parked vehicle, then the driver parked the car and went into the store.

Surveillance footage from inside Market District showed the driver, a 46-year-old Solon woman, struggling to walk into the building. The footage showed the woman going into the liquor store and buying a bottle of vodka, before walking back to her car.

The woman left without leaving her information on the parked car she hit. Witnesses were able to get the woman's license plate information and provide it to police.

Police used the license plate to track down the woman, who was backing her car out of a parking spot and trying to find a new parking spot. Officers on the scene spoke to the woman and felt she was possibly impaired.

The woman denied taking any medications and denied drinking alcohol. Field sobriety tests were administered and the woman was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving.

The woman was taken to Solon Correction Center. She refused to take a breath test, but repeatedly insisted to officers that she was below the legal limit of .08, police said.