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Posted: 12:12 PM- PROVO - Police here arrested a man after he hit a pedestrian and then attacked the victim with a mop.
Provo Police Capt. Cliff Argyle said the driver hit the pedestrian with his vehicle about 2:30 p.m. in a crosswalk at 50 East Center Street.
When the driver stopped, angry words were exchanged and the driver got out of his vehicle, grabbed a mop from the pedestrian's mop bucket and started to strike the pedestrian.
The pedestrian grabbed another mop to defend himself. He was shoved over a planter box and fell on his back.
The driver tried to leave but the pedestrian stood in front of the vehicle until police arrived. The driver was booked into the Utah County jail last Thursday for aggravated assault and on an outstanding warrant.
