Ronald Winzinger, via the Courier Post
2612. Phoenix, Ariz. June 5. 66-year-old man killed when struck by either a pickup truck with a camper shell or an SUV which fled the scene.
2613. Brockton, Mass. June 5. 6-year-old boy injured when struck by a black sedan with tinted windows which fled the scene.
2614. Rushville, NY. June 5. 43-year-old man riding a bicycle injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
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Cheshire, of course, is the drummer in Stinking Lizaveta, a Philly punk rock institution if ever there was one. A few days ago, Cheshire was struck down on her bike by a passing motorist, who was then somehow allowed to leave the scene; and if the looks of the bike are anything to go by, it was a pretty grisly wreck.
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A Raleigh man surrendered to police Monday in connection with a hit-and-run last month that killed a Warren County teen.
Corey Champion, 28, of 3525 Dewing Drive, was charged with felony hit-and-run, misdemeanor death by motor vehicle and driving with license revoked. He was released after posting a $10,000 bond.
Cody Flowers, 15, was walking along northbound U.S. Highway 1 in Norlina, returning home from a friend’s house,on May 19 when a vehicle crossed the center line, struck him and didn’t stop, leaving him on the side of the highway, authorities said.
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A 49-year-old North Bergen man was arrested last night after he fled the scene of an accident in Hoboken, but left one license plate behind, according to police.
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An officer said he saw Barlo Ochoa wreck his car then run from the scene. That officer chased Ochoa until he jumped into a nearby manhole and refused to come out.
A dive team rescued Ochoa from the manhole.
He was taken to the hospital. There is no word on this condition.
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The driver in an April South Miami hit-and-run accident that put a University of Miami student in a coma was apprehended Tuesday in New York, police said.
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Bail was set at $150,000 on Tuesday for the driver charged in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 29-year-old woman heading to a country concert in Camden on Saturday.
A prosecutor said 35-year-old Ronald Winzinger, of Hainesport, stopped after slamming into the back of a car stopped in traffic on Interstate 676 in Camden but then drove off after seeing the seriousness of the crash.
A backseat passenger in the car, Michelle MacInnes, of Jackson, died following the crash.
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During dramatic and emotional testimony, eyewitnesses to a fatal crash involving a pedestrian called the tragic event “surreal” and shocking as the alleged hit-and-run driver’s trial got under way.
“I started saying, ‘Oh my God, Oh my God’ and then she hit her. She somersaulted into the air … and landed on the ground. The car hit her. It all happened rather quickly,” James Harrison of Royersford testified Tuesday in Montgomery County Court, recalling for a jury the 1:34 p.m. April 27, 2011, crash that claimed the life of 26-year-old Kristy L. Bender who was walking along the 1200 block of South Township Line Road in Upper Providence on her way from work to her parents’ nearby home.
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A man found guilty in a 2011 fatal hit and run in Kenton County was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison Wednesday.
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A Bronx woman was in custody Wednesday in the hit-and-run death of her 17-year-old boyfriend as lethal payback for shattering her cell phone, police and family members said.
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