By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer
WEST WINDSOR — A Plainsboro woman hit two people with her car and led police on a slow-speed chase after a gas station attendant told her that her credit card had been denied, police said.
The incident began just before 10 p.m. Wednesday at the Valero gas station, at Route 571 and Southfield Road.
Kim Haggerty, 51, entered the gas station and asked the attendant for $10 of gas and three packs of cigarettes.
After the attendant informed Ms. Haggerty that her credit card had been denied, she began yelling and using profanity, police said. After the attendant left her car to go back to his booth, she turned the car toward him and attempting to run him over, missing him but striking the side of the booth with her car, police said.
Backing up, she hit a car owned by a 25-year-old resident of East Windsor. The driver, who was standing outside his car, was struck in the leg and was later transported to University Medical Center at Princeton for treatment.
Ms. Haggerty then struck yet another vehicle while its driver, a 55-year-old West Windsor resident was inside, police said. The driver got out of her car and ran for cover, while Ms. Haggerty rammed the vehicle four more times, according to the report. Officer Michael McMahon, who was responding to the incident, saw Ms. Haggerty’s vehicle on Southfield Road, and a slow-speed chase into Plainsboro Township began.
Ms. Haggerty pulled over at one point, but refused to exit her car, police said. She abruptly pulled away, striking Officer McMahon on the left thigh and right hip with her car, police said. He was not injured.
Officer McMahon then continued to pursue Ms. Haggerty at 40 mph. until she parked at an apartment complex on Quail Ridge Drive, where he blocked her car from leaving. He had to break the driver’s side window of Ms. Haggerty’s car with a baton to gain entry and arrest her, according to the report.
She was charged with robbery, criminal mischief, two counts of aggravated assault, and eluding and resisting arrest. She was then taken to the Crisis Unit at Capitol Health System’s Fuld Campus for psychological evaluation.

