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At 6:15 p.m. on Saturday, March 21, Halifax Regional Police responded to 50 Akerley Boulevard in Dartmouth for a report of an impaired driver. While officers were responding, it was learned that the vehicle in question had run over a pedestrian in the parking lot. Several people in the parking lot attempted to stop the vehicle and male driver. The driver was taken into custody in the parking lot and was transported to Halifax Regional Police East Division office in Dartmouth. The pedestrian, a 31-year-old woman from Cole Harbour, was transported to the QEII Health Sciences Centre with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The driver, who's a 20-year-old man from Dartmouth, is in custody and will be appearing in court on Monday, March 23 to face charges of impaired driving causing bodily harm and a reading over .08.