Journie Lyn Pletcher, 20, Lansford, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to driving drunk on New Year’s Day in Minot and striking and injuring a pedestrian in Minot.

Pletcher is charged in district court in Minot with criminal vehicular injury and failing to report or render aid in an accident involving a serious injury, both Class C felonies.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed with the court, Pletcher struck the woman, who suffered a large gash in her thigh. There was fatty tissue on Pletcher’s vehicle on the passenger side near the headlight. She then fled the scene and drove into a ditch after leaving the scene of the earlier accident. She had a breath alcohol content result of 0.193, according to the affidavit.

The next hearing in the case is a pre-trial conference scheduled for May 15 before Judge Doug Mattson.