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.
8409. Houston, Texas. June 17. Man in his 50s injured when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
8410. Chauvin, La. June 18. 22-year-old man fatally struck by a pickup truck which fled the scene.
8411. New York City, NY. June 18. 21-year-old man fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
8412. Kileen, Texas. June 17. 33-year-old man injured when struck by a white older model Buick which fled the scene.
8413. St. Petersburg, Fla. June 20. 33-year-old man fatally struck by a Chrysler 300 which fled the scene.
8414. La Porte County, Ind. June 20. 25-year-old man injured when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
8415-16. Covina, Cal. June 20. Woman in her 30s killed and her 10-year-old daughter injured when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene; driver later surrendered.
8417. Forest Park, Ga. June 19. 39-year-old man fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene; driver later surrendered.
8418. Dallas, Texas. June 19. 21-year-old woman fatally struck by a maroon Audi which fled the scene.
8419. San Antonio, Texas. June 18. Man fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
8420. Citrus Heights, Cal. June 20. 39-year-old man injured when struck by a green vehicle which fled the scene.
8421. Elizabeth, NJ. June 20. 3-year-old girl injured when struck by a Buick which fled the scene.
8422. Reno, Nev. June 18. Bicyclist injured when struck by a Lexus SC430 which fled the scene.
8423. Rochester, NY. June 20. 47-year-old man injured when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
8424. Pulaski County, Ky. June 20. 10-year-old boy fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
8425. Dallas, Texas. June 20. 58-year-old man fatally struck by a white four-door sedan which fled the scene.
8426. Los Angeles, Cal. June 21. Woman on bicycle fatally struck by a red Ford SUV which fled the scene.
8427. Lewistown, Mont. June 21. 17-year-old male on bicycle injured when struck by a red Chevy Tahoe which fled the scene.
8428. San Francisco, Cal. June 22. Bicyclist fatally struck by a white Honda which fled the scene.
8429. Kalamazoo, Mich. June 22. Man injured when struck by a dark SUV which fled the scene.
8430. Brookfield, Ohio. June 20. 19-year-old man injured when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
8431. San Jacinto, Cal. June 21. Woman in wheelchair critically injured when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
8432. Roanoke, Va. June 22. Woman fatally struck by two vehicles, one of which — an SUV — which fled the scene.
8433. Washington, DC. June 23. Bicyclist fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
8434. Sylvester, Ga. June 21. 20-year-old woman injured when struck by a black Nissan which fled the scene.
8435. Detroit, Mich. June 24. 56-year-old man fatally struck by a Cadillac which fled the scene.
8436. Verona, NJ. June 24. 59-year-old man fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
8437. Hoboken, NJ. June 25. 21-year-old man fatally struck by an SUV which fled the scene.
8438-39. Asheboro, NC. June 24. Two pedestrians injured when struck by a 2011-2015 Ford Super Duty pickup truck, possibly an F-250, which fled the scene.
8440. Jackson, Mich. June 23. 51-year-old man on bicycle injured when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
8441. Sacramento, Cal. June 24. 45-year-old man on bicycle fatally struck by a white sedan which fled the scene.
8442. San Francisco, Cal. June 25. 51-year-old man injured when struck by a white Chevy sedan which fled the scene.
8443. Henrico, Va. June 25. Man fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
8444. San Antonio, Texas. June 23. Man in his 50s injured when struck by a red four-door vehicle which fled the scene.
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And I quote (I)…
Christian returned home recently and was welcomed by members of the MLPD, who presented him with a new bicycle and a helmet to replace the ones destroyed in the accident, as well as a card signed by MLPD staff members.
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“We’re all pulling for him, you know as a family we love him, we want him back, so just get well. We’ll take care of the rest and then when he is back, we’re going to be super excited,” Winterberg said.
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“Sorry just ain’t good enough,” said Bentley’s father, also named William,from his home in North Carolina. “I hate it for the guy that hit him but then you’ve got to take into consideration I lost a son and he just didn’t seem like he couldn’t care less the way I took it.”
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A 27-year-old Milton man is in a coma fighting for his life after suffering a serious head injury while bicycling from his home to Sunbury last month.
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A Gloucester County man was driving drunk and with an open container when he struck a pedestrian in Atlantic City and fled Saturday night.
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Wrightsville Beach police used a partial license plate number captured from a street camera to find the driver of a truck involved in a hit-and-run last week that left a 77-year-old woman visiting Wrightsville Beach with several fractured bones.
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“We want closure, just want to know who, not even why. If anybody knows something, they must come up and say something,” he said. “If it were the other way around, we would help, we wouldn’t leave anything in secret.”
Marletta turned herself in to police, but, as Aloisi put it, “She still left that little girl in the road and ran.”
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“I totally lost it,” Zurfluh said about learning of his wife’s death. “She was the love of my life, and it was just devastating.”
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A dozen witnesses jumped into action when an accused drunken driver struck a pregnant woman and her two children on a Miramar sidewalk and drove away without stopping to help.
Those good Samaritans were honored Tuesday by Miramar Police Chief Dexter Williams for their involvement May 7 in chasing down and apprehending the woman behind the wheel of a 2008 Infiniti G37.
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Auburn Hills police were seeking Pierce for allegedly striking another woman with a vehicle following an altercation last weekend inside a T.G.I. Friday’s in Auburn Hills.
According to police, Pierce confronted the victim in the restaurant, “spraying her with mace and getting into a physical altercation,” around 12:24 a.m. Saturday at the restaurant on Squirrel Road. Police say Pierce waited outside of the restaurant and allegedly hit the victim with a 2006 Ford 4-door before fleeing the scene.
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HALFMOON, N.Y. (NEWS10) – According to court documents, a woman indicted for killing a man in a hit-and-run crash, fled the scene, and drove around for more than an hour with the body impaled in her windshield.
Maria Lentini, 30, of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is accused of hitting Patrick Duff with her BMW while he was walking on Route 9 near Kinns Road on December 6, 2015.
The documents say Lentini texted her friends and family, but never called 911. She is accused of leaving the body on the car for approximately an hour and 15 minutes.
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Johnny Manziel was the apparent victim of a hit-and-run accident earlier this week.
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“Allegedly after that, (the suspect) decided to flee the scene and she actually stole someone’s vehicle,” said Officer Alicia Chilton with the Cobb County Police Department said at the time. “She was armed with a handgun, so it was a carjacking.”
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A memorial is being setup where Snowy died, says nature photographer Deby Dixon, whose images of the cub and his mother have been seen thousands of times on YouTube.
Dixon says she doesn’t know whether the driver knows they hit a bear cub.
“We don’t know the story, and we never will,” Dixon says. “Everyone is in tears. It’s a big loss.”
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“He came forward, (and) gave us his account of what happened. We believe he had no knowledge he had struck the victim,” said Taylor.
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NBC2 has learned Fort Myers Police want to question a high-profile political candidate in connection with a deadly hit-and-run that happened this weekend.
We’re learning police believe Dan Sinclair might have information about the hit-and-run that left 18-year-old Adam King dead.
Sinclair is running for Lee County Supervisor of Elections, and actively uses social media to campaign for the office.
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The family of a wheelchair-bound woman seriously injured in a hit-and-run claims a Baltimore City police officer told them the police are too busy with other things to handle their request and to call back if the victim dies. The Police Department said the initial response was wrong.
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KALAMAZOO, MI — The driver who allegedly struck and killed a Western Michigan University student while he was out for a run May 11 admitted to police she had been drinking, according to police reports.
Morgan Renee Rowley, of Kalamazoo, is charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated causing death and failure to stop at a personal injury accident. She allegedly was driving erratically and swerving, according to police reports.
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A hit-and-run crash in north Springfield that left a bicyclist with fatal injuries June 10 was witnessed by a woman who says she was nearly hit by the same driver shortly beforehand, according to newly available police documents.
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A woman is accused of drunkenly causing three hit-and-runs in an hour and a half while driving on three wheels.
Heather Raye Trombley, 24, faces 12 counts in a charging document filed Friday: a lone felony count of criminal endangerment, as well as misdemeanor counts of driving while intoxicated, driving without a valid license, fleeing police, obstructing, lack of insurance and multiple counts of failure to stop at a crash scene and failure to report a crash.
Caught, convicted, court appearance or car-on-car in … Haddon Township, NJ; Baltimore, Md.; Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Suffolk, Va.; Eagle County, Colo.; Tallahassee, Fla.; Chicago, Ill.; Evans, NY; Fort Myers, Fla.; Alden, NY; Portland, Ore.; Bridgeport, Ct.; Saugus, Mass.; Grand Junction, Colo.; Elko, Nev.; Union City, Ind.
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.)