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.
15348. “He was a very kind soul. He would do anything for anyone,” Kiara Chapman said. “He literally, even in the freezing cold right now, would have gave you the shirt off of his back if you needed it and not thought twice about it.”
15349. Kansas City police are asking for help locating a suspect vehicle that is believed to be involved in a deadly hit-and-run on Monday. A driver struck and killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk at East Truman Road and Bennington Avenue just before 11 p.m. on Jan. 20. That driver then left the scene.
15350. WATERBURY — City police say they are searching for a 27-year-old woman who is wanted for her involvement in a 2023 hit-and-run that involved a pedestrian on West Clay Street.
15351. A man was critically injured in a hit-and-run in Pleasure Ridge Park Thursday afternoon. Louisville Metro Police Department said it responded to Fluhr Lane and Upper Hunter’s Trace about a pedestrian being hit around 3:56 p.m.
15352. A Thermopolis, Wyoming, woman was struck and killed by a driver who didn’t stop to help after the collision, authorities say.
15353. “She was the most bravest, most strongest person that I’ve known,” her twin sister, Tyler Wilkinson, said at the vigil.
15354. Phoenix police are searching for the driver who was involved in a deadly hit-and-run crash Thursday night.
15355. A youth was hit by a car that fled the scene in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood Friday afternoon, according to police.
15356. Chicago police released an image of the SUV wanted in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 66-year-old woman Friday morning as she was walking to work in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood.
15357. ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — A woman has died after police said she was hit on West State Street Saturday night.
15358. A woman was flown to an El Paso hospital after being seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver early Tuesday morning. The woman was identified as Shelly Haley, 49, in a crash investigation report provided by the Silver City Police Department. The vehicle that struck her and its driver are still unknown, according to police.
15359. A woman died on Friday night after she was struck by two drivers who fled the scene, according to authorities. The Los Angeles Police Department said a hit-and-run crash was reported at about 9:35 p.m. Friday in the area of Victory Boulevard and Troost Avenue in North Hollywood.
15360. One pedestrian was killed and several pedestrians and officers were hurt by a driver who allegedly drove into people in multiple intentional hit-and-runs in Tampa, Florida, Sunday night, police said.
15361. A 32-year-old Escondido man was killed when he was struck by a vehicle while walking in that city, authorities said Sunday.
15362. Investigators say that the victim, Lai Har Chu of Monterey Park, was walking westbound across the road in a crosswalk when she was hit by the driver of a dark-colored Ford Transit van that was driving southbound down Allesandro Street. Instead of stopping to help Chu, the suspect fled, leaving her to die in the street.
15363. COLUMBIA, S.C. — Columbia Police are looking for the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run on Saturday night.
15364. Man hit, killed on I-55 in hit-and-run incident; police searching for Dodge Durango.
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.)