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.
7433. Tampa, Fla. Nov. 7. 11-year-old boy on bicycle fatally struck by a gray vehicle which fled the scene.
7434. Lewiston, Maine. Nov. 10. Pedestrian injured when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
7435. Nanticoke, Pa. Nov. 8. 53-year-old woman injured when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene; driver later located.
7436. St. Petersburg, Fla. Nov. 10. 68-year-old man fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene; driver later identified.
7437. Madison Co., Ill. Nov. 8. 24-year-old man fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7438. Cleveland, Ohio. Nov. 10. 8-year-old boy injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7439. Melbourne, Fla. Nov. 11. Child on bicycle injured when struck by a truck which fled the scene.
7440. Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 11. Woman in her 20s fatally struck by a black Crossover vehicle which fled the scene.
7441. Shelburne, Vt. Nov. 10. Woman injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7442. Mt. Laurel, NJ. Nov. 10. 68-year-old man fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
7443. Jackson, Miss. Nov. 11. 20-year-old man on skateboard injured when struck by a silver Chevy Cavalier which fled the scene.
7444. St. Francois County, Mo. Nov. 11. 32-year-old woman fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7445-46. Boston, Mass. Nov. 12. Man and baby injured when struck by a dark Toyota sedan which fled the scene.
7447. Woodland, Cal. Nov. 12. Man fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7448. Shrewsbury, Mass. Nov. 12. Elderly woman seriously injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7449. Erie, Pa. Nov. 11. 36-year-old man injured when struck by a purple van, possibly a Dodge Caravan or Plymouth Voyager, and a white SUV which fled the scene.
7450. Falmouth, Mass. Nov. 12. 48-year-old man injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7451. Worcester, Mass. Nov. 12. 17-year-old male injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
“Connor is my baby, my first-born grandson,” she said, through tears. “I kept thinking, ‘How long was he lying out there before anybody came across him?'”
Connor suffered broken ribs, a broken collar bone and a brain injury that required emergency surgery early Friday morning. His family says he is a survivor, having already endured difficult medical conditions during his short life.
“He’s got a seizure disorder, he’s got a heart condition, he’s got a defibrillator already,” Danielle Woodcock said. “He’s already been through so much, and now this.”
7452. Omaha, Neb. Nov. 14. 40-year-old man injured when struck by a Pontiac sedan or white SUV which fled the scene.
7453. Houston, Texas. Nov. 13. Woman fatally struck by an SUV which fled the scene.
7454. Fort Collins, Colo. Nov. 13. Man injured when struck by a black SUV which fled the scene.
7455. Hudson, NY. Nov. 13. 35-year-old man injured when struck by a white Ford sedan which fled the scene.
7456. New Braunfels, Texas. Nov. 14. 24-year-old man fatally struck by a pickup truck which fled the scene.
7457. La Habra, Cal. Nov. 13. Woman fatally struck by a white SUV which fled the scene.
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From the “Make This Happen, Frederick County (Md.) Council People” files…
Whenever Jack Collins drives the stretch of U.S. 15 near Thurmont where a vehicle struck and killed Marine Corps Cpl. William Kyle Ferrell, the 56-year-old Emmitsburg resident salutes the makeshift memorial there.
After the former Navy E-5 repeated his ritual earlier this week, he noticed the rusty bridge that carries a footpath over the highway, about a mile north of where Ferrell was killed Sept. 29.
By Thursday, Collins had drafted emails to several Frederick County Council members, including Kirby Delauter and Billy Shreve. Collins recommended a more permanent memorial on the bridge to honor Ferrell, who was struck after pulling over to help a stranded driver during a heavy downpour.
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A 74-year-old woman was injured and her dog was killed when a car hit them during their walk in Wallingford on Monday evening, and now a man claiming to be the driver who struck them wants to buy the victim another dog.
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“Obviously they were relieved,” Seiple said. “They’re still grieving. It was a little bit of closure for them.”
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“She can’t breathe,” Antoinette said. “She’s on a breathing tube. Her pelvic area’s all broke. Her vertebrae in her neck are broke. Her ribs are broke.”
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Now because of changes in Florida’s hit and run laws, drivers who do leave the scene of an accident involving death or serious injury face up to 30 years in prison.
“You leave the scene and all of a sudden it goes from nothing, or maybe a traffic ticket to a first-degree felony with mandatory license suspension and mandatory state prison sentence,” said Hayslett.
At one time, that wasn’t the case.
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Former KRGV-TV reporter Kirk Chaisson appeared “highly intoxicated” when he caused a two-car wreck near the Blue Onion restaurant, according to Weslaco Police Department records.
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$10K Reward Offered for Hit and Run Driver Who Killed a Young Bethel Mom
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It’s been 10 months since the body of a 72-year-old Vietnam War veteran was found in the dark of night in front of a southside Savannah hotel.
During those 10 months, the family of Peter Meyer pleaded with Savannah’s residents to help police find the driver of the truck that struck and killed him as he walked across Abercorn Street then left him for dead.
Investigators at the time said they were looking for a red 1999 or 2000 Chevrolet Silverado, Tahoe or Suburban with damage to its front end on the right side.
On Monday, they got their woman.
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“If you believe in your faith, he’s in a better place, and now he’s with his brother who was his best friend, so you try to look at it that way and cherish the people around you as much as you can,” Verska added.
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“Hopefully someone comes out and tells us what happened that night so we can have some closure,” said his brother, Chris Brown. “It won’t bring James back, but it will give us some peace and closure of what happened that night.”
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“Just devastated. She is a really great person. She had become a really close friend of mine over the past couple of months,” Brookins said. “We recently did an event. She loved food, photography and art.”
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“Terrance would get up and sing every morning. He had always had a song in his heart,” said his aunt, Timika Shields.
Scottsdale teacher Maureen Brown awakes from coma after hit and run crash
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The first driver who hit a 14-year-old girl on Ellsworth Road near Silverleaf Drive in Pittsfield Township on Halloween placed a frantic call to 911 about 9 p.m. telling a dispatcher he hit the girl but could not find her.
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In the weeks since, Benz and his family say they have come to face-to-face with the reality of the manpower shortage at the New Orleans Police Department, as Benz recovers from a concussion, two fractured legs, a fractured wrist and a laceration to his head.
They say NOPD failed to properly investigate the hit-and-run and blamed the overworked department for prematurely declaring the case closed, before pursuing possible security camera footage on and around the bridge. No eyewitnesses have come forward.
“What does this say to the person who got away, who left my son in the middle of the street?” said Benz mother, Cindy Benz. “It’s a ticket to do it again.”
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Corpus Christi is set to see a record number of hit and runs this year. It’s a disturbing reality that is plaguing the community by tying up more police resources and disrupting lives.
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“He didn’t care how Kam’ren felt when he left him in the middle of the street, so I don’t really care how he feels,” Miller said.
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Tracy Mitchell, chef and owner at Bad Dog Taqueria in Emory Village, was arrested by DeKalb County police Wednesday and charged with first-degree homicide by vehicle, reckless driving, and two counts of hit and run. Mitchell was involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed photographer Emily Cameron on Arizona Avenue around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
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CLEVELAND– With barely a dry eye in the courtroom, the man who hit and killed a beloved Shaker Heights father and teacher before fleeing the scene was sentenced Thursday morning.
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“It is my opinion that most decent human beings would stop and check and see what they hit and offer aid to any vehicles, even if you hit a garbage can,” Jeff Kennedy said. “I also believe the reason you don’t stop to check is because you know you hit someone.”
The law change would also say a prosecutor would not have to prove that a driver knew they hit a person at trial. The bill’s authors say that loophole leads to people claiming they were drunk or asleep and didn’t know what they’ve hit and getting away with lesser penalties.
The bill will still need a vote in committee before going to the full legislature.
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A fundraising page has been started to benefit the 4-year-old boy who lost his father to a hit-and-run driver in Ann Arbor last month.
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“I don’t have time for this s***,” McCarthy said, according to police, and he allegedly drove off.
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“I fell to the ground. I was in so much pain. There was blood rushing from my face and all that,” Kirby said from her hospital bed Friday. “They should be caught and put away for life.”
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“He was probably on his way home to see his family and I shortened that. That’s the hardest part,” says Smith. “An innocent person lost his life on this street. I took an innocent person’s life.”
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CLEVELAND – The Fox 8 I -Team has learned there was no school crossing guard where a hit-and-run driver left a young boy seriously hurt.
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Hallandale Beach driver had fled from a mental-health facility when she hit a pedestrian so violently the impact severed her leg, a defense lawyer told a Broward judge Friday.
Lourdes Diaz, 54, told a witness who followed her and blocked her car after the April crash on Ocean Drive in Hollywood that she was “having a bad day” and failed to stop because she didn’t have a cell phone, according to a police report.
“She was obviously in a state of mental decline,” Diaz’s lawyer, Andrew Coffey, told Broward County Judge Peter Skolnik at a Friday morning court hearing.
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NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) — A North Miami Beach officer was transported to the hospital, early Sunday, after she was struck by a driver who, investigators said, tried to flee from the scene.
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A 23-year-old man is in critical condition after police say a group of men attacked him, then a hit-and-run driver plowed into him in Richmond Hill, Queens early on Saturday morning.
Caught, convicted, court appearance or car-on-car in …Lehighton, Pa.; Lubbock, Texas; Modesto, Cal.; Chanhassan, Minn.; Brighton, Colo.; Palatine, Ill.; Linden, NJ; Detroit, Mich.; Bellevue, Wash.; Milwaukee, Wisc.; Saraland, Ala.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Taylor, Mich.; Clearwater, Fla.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; Naches, Wash.; Tucson, Ariz.; San Francisco, Cal.
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.)