KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Authorities arrested a Kelseyville man on Friday for driving under the influence and hit and run after he fled the scene of a crash that left another driver with major injuries.

Cesar Arroyo Ceja, 22, was arrested following the wreck, which occurred shortly before 9:45 a.m. Friday on Highway 29 south of Bottle Rock Road, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake Area office.

The CHP said Arroyo Ceja, driving a 2009 Dodge, was traveling southbound on Highway 29 in a left curve south of Bottle Rock Road when, due to his level of intoxication, he failed to negotiate the curve in the road and spun out of control within the curve.

The back of Arroyo Ceja’s vehicle collided with the front of a 1991 Toyota pickup driven by Lower Lake resident Douglas D. Anthony, 47, who the CHP said was traveling northbound through the same curve.

Immediately after the collision, Arroyo Ceja fled the scene in his badly damaged vehicle. The CHP said that after Arroyo Ceja traveled approximately half a mile south of the crash scene, he drove into a ditch adjacent to Highway 29’s west edge.

When CHP officers arrived at the crash scene, they found an off-duty paramedic attending to Anthony’s injuries, the CHP reported.

Anthony subsequently was flown via a REACH air ambulance to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital for suspected serious head trauma, the CHP said.

The CHP report said Officer Rob Hearn then located Arroyo Ceja a short distance south of the crash scene.

When Hearn contacted Arroyo Ceja, he observed signs of alcohol intoxication and then performed an investigation for driving under the influence, the CHP said.

Hearn then arrested Arroyo Ceja for felony DUI and felony hit and run. The CHP said Arroyo Ceja was transported to Sutter Lakeside Hospital where he was cleared for booking.

Arroyo Ceja’s booking sheet at the Lake County Jail showed he was booked for three felonies, one for hit and run resulting in injury and two related to DUI causing bodily injury, with bail set at $50,000.

Jail records indicated he later posted the required percentage of bail and was released. He’s tentatively scheduled to appear in Lake County Superior Court on Feb. 8.

Arroyo Ceja was arrested for being drunk in public in February, according to arrest records.

The CHP said both drivers were wearing their seat belts at the time of the wreck.

Officer Hearn is leading the investigation into the Friday crash, the CHP said.

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