CHESTERFIELD — St. Louis County prosecutors on Thursday charged a 35-year-old man after he he illegally tried to pass a school bus on Schoettler Road and hit a 9-year-old boy with his car.

Daniel Devito, of Chesterfield, was charged Thursday with causing serious physical injury while driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident, both felonies.

Chesterfield police say that about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday officers responded to 1965 Schoettler Road where a child had been struck by a car. Officers stopped a vehicle matching the description witnesses provided, which was missing a mirror found at the scene of the accident.

Devito, who lives nearby on Mill Spring Drive, claimed to police he didn't know he had anyone but admitted he was high.

"Today I was off, so I smoked a little

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