Memorial for hit-and-run victim 1500.
1500. Los Angeles. April 21. 17-year-old Alex Romero was fatally struck by what’s believed to be a gray Toyota Corolla which fled the scene. (UPDATE)
1501. Des Moines, Iowa. April 20. Child suffers non-life-threatening injuries when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
1502. San Luis Obispo, Cal. April 21. 31-year-old woman riding her bicycle suffers non-life-threatening injuries when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
1503. Hollywood, Fla. April 20. 40-year-old man injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled.
1504. Hermitage, Pa. April 21. 33-year-old woman struck and injured by a dark-colored newer-model sedan which fled the scene. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 724-983-6780.
Related stories:
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Evelyn Snyder’s life slipped away on a cold and misty December night as she laid on the side of Lemay Ferry Road.
She had been struck by a hit-and-run driver less than 100 feet from the apartment complex in the 2800 block of Lemay Ferry Road where she had lived for several months.
For 24 years, her parents, Faith and Harry Snyder Sr., have been searching for answers to what happened that night. Repeated requests over the years to St. Louis County Police investigators have gone unanswered, leaving them feeling neglected and stonewalled, they said.
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Allentown police are charging a 30-year-old city man with homicide by vehicle after he fatally struck a pedestrian in February and then fled a few blocks away to his home, authorities said.
Anthony N. Keller, 30, is being arraigned Wednesday night on charges stemming from the hit-and-run accident in south Allentown that killed 55-year-old Donald Wallis early Feb. 14, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney’s office.
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From witness accounts, a composite drawing has been produced and forwarded to Historic City News by Traffic Homicide Investigator, Deputy J.D. McGinnis, in hopes that our readers may recognize it as someone they know.
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A Las Vegas Fire Captain is under investigation after his vehicle was found at the scene of a hit and run accident on Monday.
Police say a car registered to Captain Dean Fletcher struck a pole on Park Run Drive and Pavilion Center Drive on Monday. But when officers arrived, the driver was gone. Police say they went to Fletcher’s house, but were unable to find him.
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A West Side man was sentenced to four years probation today after pleading guilty in the hit-and-run death of an 11-year-old girl.
Relatives had said that Carlos Rubio, 67, left the scene of the accident last June out of fear.Witnesses told police that Rubio stopped his van briefly after striking Itali Hinton on June 22 last year, then drove on.
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Sen. Jeff Van Drew on Thursday announced he has introduced legislation that would make it a third-degree crime to destroy or tamper with evidence, or give false information to police, after leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle crash. The bill — introduced by Van Drew in the Senate, and fellow First District legislators Nelson Albano and Matt Milam in the Assembly, in February — is in reaction to the December 2010 death of Edward Morrison.
The 36-year-old Commercial Township man was walking along Silver Run Road, in Millville, when he was struck by a vehicle.
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A 23-year-old University of Minnesota student died Thursday afternoon of injuries suffered early last Friday when he and two others were struck by a hit-and-run driver on a sidewalk near Dinkytown in Minneapolis.
Benjamin Van Handel of Appleton, Wis., “passed away with his family and friends by his side,” according to a statement from Christine Hill, a spokeswoman for Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.
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A River Street bar served drinks to a noticeably intoxicated patron shortly before he struck and killed a motor scooter driver on Islands Expressway, a suit filed Friday contends.
The civil action adds Bernie’s Too Inc., which owns Bernie’s River Street, to earlier litigation filed by the parents of 18-year-old Craig Loxton, the victim of a fatal Dec. 13 hit-and-run wreck.
Police said Loxton was killed instantly when the motor scooter he was driving was struck from behind on the Islands Expressway overpass just west of President Street and U.S. 80 shortly after midnight Dec. 12.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – A local man, who was hit by a car several months back, spoke about his ordeal today with Six News. David Rizkallah’s moving much slower these days since being hit back in February.
Caught, convicted, court appearance or car-on-car in … Port Angeles, Wash.; Fremont, Neb.; Fresno, Cal.; Richmond, Va.; Clearlake, Cal.; Syracuse, NY; Lake in the Hills, Ill.; Berlin, Md.; Forest Grove, Oreg.; Milwaukee; Willmar, Minn.; Hampton, Va.; El Paso, Texas.
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