A 27-year-old Renton man pleaded not guilty at a Monday arraignment to a charge of vehicular assault for allegedly hitting and critically injuring a pedestrian on Lake Washington Boulevard in Renton July 7.

Garrett Anthony Bakken is free on bail. A case setting hearing was set for Sept. 5 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.

Bakken lives in the 1000 block of Lake Washington Boulevard, not far from where 54-year-old Rosalind M. Hall was hit at about 8:45 a.m. on July 7.

According to court documents, Bakken was southbound on Lake Washington Boulevard when his 2003 Hyundai Sante Fe drifted off the roadway, struck a guardrail and a street sign. He continued south at about 35 mph, striking Hall as she was northbound in a pedestrian pathway.

She suffered broken bones and cuts and bruises.

In charging Bakken, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg wrote that Bakken was driving his car while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs.