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Cyclist hurt in hit-run; woman accused

Lanaye Jones, 24, was arrested Saturday on charges of drunken driving and related offenses after she hit a bicyclist at 30th and Diamond Streets and then fled, Philadelphia police said.

Lanaye Jones, 24, was arrested Saturday on charges of drunken driving and related offenses after she hit a bicyclist at 30th and Diamond Streets and then fled, Philadelphia police said.

They said that immediately after Jones struck the bicyclist, at 6:55 a.m., witnesses called 911, and she was stopped by police in her 2000 Suzuki Esteem at 19th and York Streets. Jones, of the 100 block of West Sylvania Street, was taken to police headquarters and charged.

The bicyclist, a 22-year-old man, was not immediately identified. He was in stable condition at Temple University Hospital with leg and facial injuries, police said.

- Mark Fazlollah