SAN DIEGO – A judge has denied bail to an driver who allegedly struck a 5-year-old girl while driving recklessly onto a pedestrian path in the Liberty Station area, causing the girl to be rushed to a hospital for a traumatic head injury.

Savannah Monique Taylor, 21, pleaded not guilty on Sept. 10 to two felony drunk driving charges involving the Sept. 6 incident that injured Olive T., who was injured while she was riding a scooter.

The girl was taken to Rady Children’s Hospital for emergency brain surgery. One charge said she had become comatose due to a brain injury.

A prosecutor told San Diego Superior Court Judge Rod Shelton that Taylor had two prior alcohol-related cases, and one involved physical injuries to a family member for which Taylor had been free on bond.

That is when Shel

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