After striking a woman’s house on Warrensville Road in Warrensville with a 2014 Jeep Patriot about 3:15 a.m. Tuesday, motorist Wyatt James Johnston fled south, driving into Montoursville, where a state trooper, alerted to the hit-run crash, spotted him near Broad and Mill streets, according to an affidavit.

The trooper noticed “heavy front-end damage” to the Jeep and activated his cruiser’s emergency lights in an effort to get the 18-year-old Johnston to stop.

However, the teen accelerated, did a U-turn and traveled north a short distance before going off the road, striking a fence that disabled the vehicle, police said.

Johnston, of 426 Third St., Montoursville, who did not have a valid driver’s license, was ordered to perform a series of field sobriety tests after the trooper noticed several signs that he was likely impaired, police said.

At the completion of the tests, Johnston took off running, but was quickly nabbed and taken into custody. The teen refused to submit a blood sample, police said.

Taken before District Judge William Solomon hours later, Johnston was arraigned on charges of felony fleeing, evading arrest, DUI, two counts of accidents involving damage to attended vehicle or property plus seven summary offenses. He was committed to the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail.