An ongoing collection of unsolved hit-and-run cases, with a focus on car/pedestrian incidents, from across the country since Jan. ‘010. If you know something about any of these incidents, or one that I’ve missed, do the right thing and call the police, even anonymously. After a respite from keeping the list, it restarted in January 2019, highlighting one case a day. If there’s a case you’ve seen that deserves highlighting, drop me a line at hickey@brianphickey.com.
13680. “That’s somebody’s grandmother,” neighbor Willie Mae Cain said. “Somebody’s mother. Have some remorse for somebody. Some heart. You just left her there?”
13681. Former City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty has agreed to settle her lawsuit against the Portland Police Association and two officers over a 2021 incident in which the union president falsely implicated her in a hit-and-run.
13682. Arriving at the scene, they learned the victim had been struck by two different vehicles while walking on the marked pedestrian crossing. Police said the second vehicle had already left the scene and are working on identifying the driver and vehicle.
13683. TRENTON, New Jersey (WPVI) — Police in New Jersey are looking for a hit-and-run driver who left a woman lying in the roadway Thursday night.
13684. Police said the driver of a four-door sedan hit and killed a 33-year-old woman walking along the road. Surveillance video shows the driver exiting an offramp from the Airport Expressway onto Northwest 36th Street when he or she hits the woman, stops for less than a minute, turns on his or her hazard lights, then drives off westbound on Northwest 36th Street, into Miami Springs.
13685. COLUMBUS, Ohio — One person is in the hospital after being hit by a vehicle in southeast Columbus Friday night, according to police.
13686. Police are searching for a driver who struck and killed a woman walking in Inglewood on Friday morning.
13687. AURORA, Colo. — Aurora Police are investigating a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian outside Children’s Hospital Saturday morning.
13688. Cincinnati police say the woman, 33, and her two dogs were both killed. The driver fled the scene.
13689. The Alamogordo Police Department is searching for information after a fatal hit-and-run crash. According to the police, an officer found a 56-year-old man in the 600 block of First Street around 2:27 a.m. The man had injuries “consistent with being struck by a vehicle,” and he was dead. The vehicle seemingly fled the scene.
13690. Littleton Police are looking for the suspect vehicle in a hit-and-run that killed a man Sunday morning. Police said the crash happened just after 3:20 a.m. at the intersection of Bowles Avenue and Sante Fe Drive. The driver was going east on Bowels when he hit and killed a man who was 40 to 50 years old.
13691. Memphis Police Department is investigating a hit-and-run accident that left one person dead.
13692. Philadelphia Police are searching for the driver who injured a woman in a hit and run. It happened just before 1:30 a.m. on the 3800 block of North 2nd Street in Hunting Park.
13693. Sacramento police are investigating a hit-and-run crash that killed a woman early Sunday in the city’s Fruitridge Manor neighborhood.
13694. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is asking for the public’s help as officers search for a white Jeep Grand Cherokee after the vehicle’s driver allegedly hit and killed a Littleton pedestrian early Sunday.
13695. Police are looking for the driver of a Corvette that may have been street racing when they hit and killed a man in Hollywood.
13696. Investigators say 23-year-old Stephen Marquel Thompson, of Washington, D.C., was struck by the car shortly before 2 a.m. in the area of Ritchie Marlboro Road as he was walking in the third lane on the southbound side of the highway.
13697. A pocket bike or mini bike disappeared after the rider was injured in a hit-and-run crash in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of Los Angeles Monday morning.
13698. MILWAUKEE — A 48-year-old woman was struck and killed early Saturday by a driver of vehicle that didn’t stop at the scene. The Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the victim as Heidi K. Schneider
13699. The Delaware State Police are investigating a fatal pedestrian hit-and-run collision that occurred early this morning in New Castle that left one man dead.
13700. Aurora police said they are investigating an early morning hit-and-run crash on the city’s far West Side on Wednesday that killed a 69-year-old Aurora woman.
13701. Authorities are searching for a suspect and vehicle in a deadly hit-and-run in Washington state that investigators believe was intentional.
13702. Milwaukee police say hit-and-run crashes make up 20% of their cases, and you help solve a lot of them. Police say a lot of their investigations revolve around tips from the public. They say it’s better for everyone to do the right thing.
13703. The pedestrian, described as a 42-year-old woman, was pushing a shopping cart in the street along the right shoulder of eastbound lanes when a vehicle traveling in the same direction hit her. The driver then fled the scene. According to SDPD, the pedestrian sustained fatal injuries in the collision and was pronounced dead by medical personnel at the scene. Her identity has not been disclosed at this time.
More hit-and-run stories, including every volume of Hit-and-Run America (in reverse order), are accessible from this linked page. (The full Volume-by-Volume list will appear sporadically from now on.)