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WEBVTT OFF WAS IN COURT TODAY.WLWT NEWS 5'S ALEXIS ROGERS WASTHERE, AND GIVES US OUR FIRSTGOOD LOOK AT THE WOMAN AND ANUPDATE ON THE TEACHER'SCONDITIOALEXIS: 23-YEAR-OLD KAYLA WILSONFACES A JUDGE AFTER POLICE SAYSHE WAS DRIVING THE BUICK REGALTHAT STRUCK LONGTIME ELDER HIGHSCHOOL TEACHER MARK KLUSMANSATURDAY MORNING.SHE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH OF ACRIMINAL RECORD.NO FELONY RECORD.NO VIOLENT FELONIEALEXIS: SHE'S CHARGED WIAGGRAVATED VEHICULAR ASSAULT,FAILURE TO STOP AFTER ANACCIDENT AND DRIVING UNDERSUSPENSION.THE DEFENDENT ADMITTED TORIGHT BEFORE IMMEDIATELY DRIVINGTHAT CAR THAT WAS INVOLVED INTHE CRASH AT ABOUT 50 MILES PEHOUR.SHE WAS SMOKING MARIJUANA.PSHE AS I SAID FLED THAT SCENEALEXIS: KLUSMAN WAS HELPING LEADA STUDENT GROUP DOING COMMUNITYCLEANUP ALONG WARSAW AVENUE.ROGER AUER SAW THE CRASH, HESAYS KLUSMAN WAS GOING TO THEBACK OF A TRUCK TO GET OUT ALEAF BLOWER WHEN HE WAS HIT.>> ALL OF A SUDDEN I HEARD THETIRES SKIDDING.FOR WHATEVER REASON SHE LOCKEDUP THE TIRES AND SLID SIDEWAYS, CAME TOWARD THE PICK UP TRUCK.THE TRUCK WAS NOT EVEN IN HERLANE.BUT SHE ENDED UP HITTING THEBACK OF THE TRUCK WITH THE SIDEOF HER CARALEXIS: WILSON WAS EMOTIONAL INCOURT AS THE JUDGE SET HER BONDAT THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLIONBOND.ACCORDING TO THE PROSECUTORKLUSMAN HAS HAD TO UNDERGOMULTIPLE SURGERIES BECAUSE OFHIS INJURIES.>> HE IS IN THE HOSPITALRECOVERING.THERE IS A LOT OF HOPE FOR HIM.AS WE SA BEFORE, HE IS ASTRONG WILLED MAN.HE WILL GET THROUGH THIS.ALEXIS: KLUSMAN IS SAID TO BE INCRITICAL CONDITION.KAYLA WILSON WILL BE BACK IN

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A woman accused of a hit-and-run that seriously injured a popular Elder High School teacher appeared in court Wednesday.Kayla Wilson, 23, was arrested Tuesday, Cincinnati police said, in connection to a Saturday morning crash near Warsaw and Wilder avenues in East Price Hill.Wilson is charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular assault and leaving the scene of a crash. Her bail was set at $750,000 in court Wednesday.“The defendant admitted to right before immediately driving that car that was involved in the crash at about 50 miles per hour. She was smoking marijuana. She, as I said, fled that scene,” said David Wood from the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office.Mark Klusman, 74, an Elder High School teacher, was hit as he was doing volunteer work.Klusman and other volunteers from Elder were cleaning up leaves and debris on the road along Warsaw Avenue.Cincinnati police said Tuesday that Wilson was traveling at an excessive speed and was under the influence of marijuana when the crash happened. Roger Auer witnessed the crash. Auer said Klusman was going to the back of a truck to get out a leaf blower. “All of a sudden I heard the tires skidding. For whatever reason she locked up the tires and slid sideways came toward the pickup truck,” Auer said. “The truck was not even in her lane. But she ended up hitting the back of the truck with the side of her car." Wilson was emotional in court as the judge set her bond.According to Wood, Klusman has had to undergo multiple surgeries because of his injuries. “He is in the hospital recovering. There is a lot of hope for him. As we said before, he is a strong-willed man. He will get through this,” Elder High school principal Kurt Ruffing said. Wilson is scheduled to be back in court Dec. 22.