(Michigan City, IN) - Michigan City Police have made an arrest in connection with a badly injured pedestrian struck by a hit and run driver last year.

Gerral Smith, 31, is charged in La Porte Superior Court 1 with aggravated battery, leaving the scene of an accident and driving with a suspended license.

The collision happened in September in the area of Grand and Fairfield avenues. Police said the 26 year old man hit by the vehicle suffered life threatening injuries. Smith was charged two months later after his vehicle was located and other evidence gathered that identified him as the suspect, police said.

He was arrested Monday on a warrant when located in the 200 block of Hopkins St.  The Michigan City man was being held in the La Porte County Jail on $25,000 bond.