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.
836. Panama City, Fla. Sept. 2. Pregnant woman suffers non-life-threatening injuries after being struck by a by a tan or beige SUV which fled the scene.
837. Kennewick, Wash. Sept. 2. 10-year-old girl (pictured) struck by a white full-sized Ford truck with a canopy and dual tires in the rear, 1998 to 2000 model year which fled the scene.
838. Weston, Ct. Aug. 28. 14-year-old boy on bicycle struck and injured by a white SUV which fled the scene.
839. Syracuse, NY. Sept. 3. 25-year-old man briefly hospitalized after being struck by a red, four-door Pontiac Grand Prix which fled the scene.
840. Chicago. Sept. 2. 49-year-old man on a bicycle struck and killed by an unidentified vehicle which left him dying in the street.
841. Cambridge, Mass. Sept. 4.
842. Houston. Sept. 5. Woman in her late 20s struck and killed by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
843. Philadelphia. Sept. 4.
844. Milwaukee. Sept. 5. 44-year-old woman struck and killed by a dark-colored new model foreign car, possibly a Toyota or Nissan, which fled the scene.
845. Queens, NYC, NY. Sept. 5. 45-year-old man struck and killed by an SUV which fled the scene.
846. Chicago. Sept. 5. 11-year-old girl among four people (three of them children) injured when struck by a stolen gray or black 1999 Chrysler 300 with Indiana plates, from which several people ran after the collision.
Related stories:
And I quote (I) …
Driving a Maserati, Lindsay Lohan accidently hit a woman pushing a child in a stroller before deciding to flee Wednesday, witnesses told RadarOnline.com.
Two eyewitnesses said the “Mean Girls” star clipped the woman while driving her luxury car around 5 p.m. after she neglected to look both ways before making a turn. Lohan was pulling out of a parking garage in her West Hollywood neighborhood.
And I quote (II) …
ATLANTA — Atlanta police have reopened an unsolved hit-and-run case, thanks to some new clues uncovered in a new hit-and-run case in Clayton County.
The original case involved a crash on Christmas Eve of 2008. Mildred, the 64-year-old victim in the case, asked CBS Atlanta not to use her last name, since the suspect hasn’t been found.
“It shocked me that he didn’t stop,” said Mildred, who was not injured in the wreck.
Suspect
Pasadena police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who critically injured an 83-year-old man on a motorized scooter. Investigators said Frank Paneno was dragged for several feet before the driver stopped.
Police are looking for Lucio Morales, who also goes by Martin Beltran. They said Morales and a passenger pulled Paneno out from underneath the car. Then Morales drove away, leaving his passenger behind.
And I quote (IV) …
Rookie cop Marquis Morrison was on the streets without a license the night of his hit-and-run collision with a 14-year-old girl that left her in a wheelchair and him in criminal court.
Now, he’s without a uniform, too.
And I quote (V) …
In the moments after a vehicle hit Jason Lummis last Wednesday night, sending him flying 20 feet through the air, he feared he would die alone along the side of the road.
“I didn’t think I was going to live,” he said, “and I wanted to hear my wife’s voice again. I didn’t think I was going to live because of the way I felt, that everything was draining out of me.”
And I quote (VI) …
High Point, NC — Police say a woman who struck a 4-year-old boy with an SUV should not have been behind the wheel. They also won’t charge her with hit-and-run, but just driving with a revoked license.
And I quote (VII) …
On July 16, 2000, Townsend was riding his motorcycle on Highway 9 in Bennettsville when he was hit and killed by a car. His family believes there’s someone out there with answers.
“No one has told us any information about the death of Clyde,” said Diane Townsend, Clyde’s mother, “The police department, nobody and we want people out there to hear me say we want y’all to help us with solving this case about my son Clyde, cause 10 years is a very very long time.”
And I quote (VIII) …
Friends of the 18-year-old Harrow (Canada) driver accused in the hit-and-run death of a 15-year-old Leamington cyclist say the two teens knew each other well.
Soldiers from the Army’s 52nd Ordnance Group based at Fort Campbell have undergone hours of exhaustive cognitive testing in the military’s first-of-its-kind study of mild traumatic brain injury. This focus on the soldiers who find and destroy the powerful and deadly weapons is part of a larger effort by the military this year to better track and treat mild brain injuries.
Caught, convicted, court appearance or car-on-car in … Carroll County, Kent.; North Plains, Oreg.; New Caanan, Ct.; Oxnard, Cal.; Bridgeport, Ct.; Tulsa, Okla.: Waipahu, Hawaii; Elmira, NY; Edina, Minn.; San Francisco; Ghent, Ky; Monroe, NY; Oak Park, Ill.; El Paso, Texas; Livermore, Cal.; Steubenville, Ohio; Philadelphia; South Los Angeles; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Covington, Ga.; Bloomsburg, Pa.; Bonaire, Ga.; Cary, NC; Yakima, Wash.; Lexington, Kent.
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.)