A man who was riding on the hood of a car that crashed into the First Insurance Building on Beretania Street last week caused the crash when he punched through the car’s window with brass knuckles, hit the driver in the head and grabbed the steering wheel, said Vickie Kapp, deputy city prosecutor.

An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging the man, Mario Ruiz, with terroristic threatening, criminal property damage, unauthorized entry into a vehicle, assault, use of a deadly or dangerous weapon in the commission of a crime and harassment.

His bail is $200,000. However, he remains in critical condition at Queen’s Medical Center, Kapp said.

She said the driver, a 46-year-old woman, is Ruiz’s ex-girlfriend who had obtained a restraining order against Ruiz on Jan. 24, but police had not served Ruiz with the order.

Ruiz had stalked the woman and her new boyfriend and sent the woman harassing messages asking to get back together, Kapp said.

Police said the events that lead to the Jan. 26 crash started in the parking lot of Times Supermarket Beretania store. They said witnesses reported seeing a man and woman arguing then saw the car leave the parking lot with a man on top. The car traveled Ewa-bound on Beretania Street weaving across all five lanes before crashing into the First Insurance Building at the Ward Avenue intersection.

Witnesses said the crash pinned the man between the car and the building.

City ambulances transported the man to Queen’s in critical condition and the woman in serious condition.