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A San Diego police officer is suspected of being in a hit-and-run crash and driving under the influence.
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A Desert Hot Springs man who struck and killed a pedestrian with his SUV and fled the scene was ordered today to spend 100 days in a work-release program.
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A suspect in the hit and run death of a cyclist (pictured) along North Coast Highway has turned himself in, according the San Diego County Sheriff’s Dept.
James Steven Swarzman, 47, of Encino, was riding with a small group of bicyclists in Leucadia around 1 a.m. Sunday when a Dodge Ram struck him and fled the scene, investigators said.
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WILTON — Some diligent police investigating produced an arrest warrant for the driver in a hit-and-run incident more than a month ago, a case that was muddied further by the fact that the victim did not recall being struck by a vehicle.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A 33-year-old woman was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that left an 28-year-old college student and mother of three in critical condition.
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A St. Paul teacher suspected of running over a 2-year-old girl has been placed on leave from the district.
Rosie Ortega was released from the hospital Wednesday. She was conscious and breathing after the Sunday incident in St. Paul, police said.
Police arrested Hamjatta Fofana, 52, of St. Paul, on suspicion of criminal vehicular operation. He was released from the Ramsey County jail Tuesday and has not been charged.
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A man was arrested and accused of crashing his car into two Charlotte-Mecklenburg police vehicles and then driving away. Police said the man is also facing child neglect charges because they said he had his infant son in the car during the incident without a car seat.
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The man who found the body of 16-year-old Alan Hess of Bristol could be charged in connection with the fatal hit-and-run accident.
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A woman who struck and killed an 80-year-old man in Mountain View with her car last year pleaded no contest to a felony hit-and-run charge, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.
Keibun Son, a 57-year-old Saratoga resident, was arrested in July after she hit Manuel Enos as he walked in the crosswalk at California Street and Franklin Avenue. Enos, a Mountain View resident, died from his injuries the day after the collision.
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A woman in Hartly, Delaware, woke up to the feeling of her bed being moved on Friday. When she got up, her bed was several feet away from where it was when she went to sleep that night. Authorities say a hit-and-run driver was to blame.
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The unidentified victim was in the area around 3 p.m. when he saw a gray Ford Mustang “squealing its tires and driving recklessly” down the street. The victim chased after the vehicle to get the driver’s attention and tell him to slow down. The vehicle did stop but the victim said “he could not stop running quick enough and he ran into the back of the vehicle and fell down,” according to the report.
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While cyclists have a right to be in the road, police say riders need to occupy the slow lane and should have front and rear lights. Most importantly, police say, is wearing a helmet and having proper reflective garments. Kane was the second cyclist to be involved in a hit-and-run crash in Cobb this week. Last Saturday, cyclist Ernest Terrell Maxwell of Austell was killed after being struck on Clay Road and Warren Drive in Austell.
The crashes reiterate the need for everyone – cyclists and drivers – to be careful on the roads.
Kane, 43, doesn’t remember anything about the crash that left her with a concussion and severe bruising, and said she doesn’t know what more she could have done to avoid being hit. Her crash happened near Milford Elementary School.
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A 20-year-old Mount Airy woman was sentenced Friday to serve a mandatory year in prison for leaving the scene after her car hit and killed a 17-year-old senior in front of Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School last year.
Montgomery County Court Judge Steven T. O’Neill sentenced Stephanie Phillips, a hotel housekeeper, to one to five years behind bars for the felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.
But under an agreement between the sides, Phillips will be allowed to continue working at a Motel 6 in King of Prussia, and will report after work to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Eagleville.
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PASADENA – Seven months after a hit-and-run driver struck and nearly killed 83-year-old Frank Paneno as he rode his electric scooter home from church, the Pasadena man, now recuperated, made a emotional return home Friday.
“I’m just tickled pink,” Paneno said as his friends and the staff members at the Chancellor Place Pasadena retirement home spontaneously broke into a chorus of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” when he entered the front door.
“Normally, it’s very difficult to keep an Italian’s mouth shut. But under the circumstances, man, do I want to cry,” he said.
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In the Badlands parking lot, Fisher spotted the two and zapped them both with his electric “stun pen” security device, Weisz said during trial. Weisz and his friend recovered from the jolt, scrambled into his vehicle – and then ran over Fisher when they pulled onto 20th Street, according to police.
Weisz said at trial he never knew he hit Fisher.
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A man and a woman were arrested Saturday in connection with the hit-and-run death of a 15-year-old girl after a Liberty County party celebrating last week’s conviction of a woman who fatally shot a 7-year-old boy on her property in 2009.
Michael Linkinhoker, 30, was charged Saturday with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Charli Gore, whose body was discovered around 8 a.m. Saturday by a man walking down his driveway on County Road 443 near FM 1409, south of Dayton, said Capt. Rex Evans of the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office.
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