LEWISTON — An Auburn woman who didn’t stop after her vehicle struck a man in a crosswalk, breaking his leg, will serve a week in jail, a judge said Tuesday.

Eighth District Court Judge Rick Lawrence, presiding over the Unified Criminal Docket, sentenced Kelsey Cushman, 19, to 180 days in Androscoggin County Jail, on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury, a misdemeanor. Lawrence suspended most of that time, except for seven days. Cushman will report to jail on April 15 to serve her sentence, Lawrence said.

Cushman was also ordered to complete a defensive driving course, as well as 50 hours of community service.

After she serves the jail time, Cushman will be on a yearlong administrative release. That condition means she would be unsupervised, but if she were to engage in criminal conduct during that period, she would risk serving up to 180 days of the suspended sentence.

Cushman also pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge of driving to endanger.

Lawrence sentenced her on the additional charge to a concurrent week in jail, a $575 fine and the loss of her driver’s license for six months.

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Cushman surrendered her license at the court hearing on Tuesday, but she was allowed to drive home.

Michael Mannion of Oak Street, the pedestrian who was hit, was in the courtroom for the hearing on Tuesday, but declined to speak to the judge.

Assistant District Attorney Andrew Matulis said Mannion found the plea agreement acceptable.

Mannion was struck shortly before 6 a.m. on Nov. 10, while in a crosswalk at Sabattus and Oak streets, after seeing the car Cushman was driving and trying to avoid it.

He was taken by ambulance to Central Maine Medical Center and was treated for a fractured fibula (lower leg bone). An observer reported he walked with a limp in the courtroom on Tuesday.

Cushman, who was driving a Volkswagen, continued to her job at a nursing home, without stopping to attend to Mannion after the collision, police said.

Witnesses told police that Cushman had limited visibility due to frost on her windshield.

Investigators caught up with Cushman at her workplace that morning. They reported that Cushman told them she knew she had hit something, and that it might have been a person, but she panicked and fled the scene, Matulis told the Sun Journal, reading from police reports.

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