The Ames police announced on Tuesday they have arrested a CyRide bus driver in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed an Iowa State student late last year.

Benjamin Clague, 23, of Gilbert, Iowa, was arrested just before 10 a.m. Wednesday at his home in Gilbert.

Emmalee Jacobs, a freshman studying business at Iowa State University, was struck on the intersection of Ash Avenue and Lincoln Way in Ames on the early morning of Dec. 14.

Jacobs was struck shortly after 7 a.m. on Dec. 14 as she was walking to campus to take a final. An ISU police officer found her lying on the road, and she was transported to Mary Greely Medical Center, where she later died.

According to a press release, Ames police, with help from CyRide staff, determined that Jacobs was struck by a CyRide bus.

Clague has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in a death, a Class-D felony, and failure to obey a traffic-control device, a simple misdemeanor.

— by Bill Cooney