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.
7228. Anchorage, AK. Oct. 2. 56-year-old fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
7229. San Diego, Cal. Oct. 2. 65-year-old man fatally struck by two vehicles which fled the scene.
7230. Huntsville, Ala. Oct. 2. 84-year-old man fatally struck by a dark sedan which fled the scene.
7231. Cathedral City, Cal. Oct. 3. Man in 40s on bicycle fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7232. Philadelphia, Pa. Oct. 1. 56-year-old man fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene; driver later located.
7233. Sherman Oaks, Cal. Oct. 4. 18-year-old woman fatally struck by a burgundy sedan which fled the scene.
7234. Queens, NY. Oct. 4. 41-year-old man fatally struck by a dark-colored SUV which fled the scene.
7235. Wilmington, Del. Oct. 3. 41-year-old man fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7236. Everett, Wash. Oct. 3. Woman in 50s critically injured when struck by a dark four-door vehicle which fled the scene.
7237. Shreveport, La. Oct. 4. 62-year-old man fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7238. Indianapolis, Ind. Oct. 4. 27-year-old man on bicycle fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7239. Burlington, NC. Oct. 4. 20-year-old man badly injured when struck by a older-model Ford truck or SUV which fled the scene.
7240. Schererville, Ind. Oct. 5. 54-year-old man fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene; driver later located.
7241. Farmington, Mass. Oct. 5. 34-year-old man injured when struck by a dark green or dark colored Dodge Durango or full-sized pickup truck which fled the scene.
7242. National City, Cal. Oct. 5. Pedestrian injured when struck by a 2009 Nissan Altima 2-door which fled the scene.
7243. Belmont County, Ohio. Oct. 5. Woman injured when struck by a white Pontiac Bonneville which fled the scene.
7244. Corpus Christi, Texas. Oct. 5. Man on bicycle injured when struck by a silver four-door car which fled the scene.
7245. Cocoa, Fla. Oct. 6. 23-year-old man injured when struck by a black two-door sedan which fled the scene.
7246. Upper Macungie Twp., Pa. Oct. 6. 18-year-old man on bicycle injured when struck by a black sedan which fled the scene.
7247. Prince George’s County, Md. Oct. 6. Man fatally struck by a white Ford Mustang which fled the scene.
7248. Longview, Texas. Oct. 6. Man fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7249. Eau Claire, Wisc. Oct. 8. Man injured when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene.
7250. Gwinnett Co., Ga. Oct. 6. 28-year-old woman fatally struck by a gold, four-door Honda Civic VTEC which fled the scene.
7251. Wilkes Barre, Pa. Oct. 7. 19-year-old woman injured when struck by a black sedan, possibly a Honda Accord, which fled the scene.
7252. Boise, Idaho. Oct. 6. Man on bicycle injured when struck by a black passenger car which fled the scene.
7253. Tulsa, Okla. Oct. 7. 8-year-old boy injured when struck by a vehicle which fled the scene; driver later arrested.
7254. Islip, NY. Oct. 6. 17-year-old male fatally struck by a vehicle which fled the scene; driver later located.
7255. Las Vegas, Nev. Oct. 7. Juvenile injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7256. Daly City, Cal. Oct. 8. 61-year-old woman badly injured when struck by a white mid-1990s Isuzu Rodeo or Honda Passport which fled the scene.
7257. Chicago, Ill. Oct. 4. 63-year-old woman fatally struck by a light-colored Ford Explorer which fled the scene.
7258. Chesapeake, Va. Oct. 9. 57-year-old man injured when struck by an SUV which fled the scene; driver later arrested.
7259. Philadelphia, Pa. Oct. 8. 23-year-old woman injured when struck by a silver vehicle which fled the scene.
7260. Memphis, Tenn. Oct. 8. 23-year-old woman fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
7261. Highlands Ranch, Colo. Oct. 9. 60-year-old man on bicycle injured when struck by a four-door Subaru which fled the scene.
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A suspect was arrested in the fatal hit-and-run crash of Cesar Andres Medina, authorities said Saturday.
Andrew Christopher Michaels, 19, of Laguna Niguel was arrested in connection with the crash, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.An emergency room nurse, Jennifer Medina, was trying to cope with the heartbreak after she discovered that the patient she was treating while working the night shift at a Southern California hospital was her dying brother, Cesar.
Medina, known to friends as Andy, was transported to Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center in Mission Viejo after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in San Juan Capistrano Friday night.
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What would Jesus say? 22-year-old Christian rapper Ryan Anthony Salandy is being charged with first-degree murder after he admitted to police that he intentionally hit a man with his car and that man later died.
Salandy and the victim, 21-year-old William Dean McDaniel, had gotten into an argument over music recording when the fight got out of control, according to police reports. “Investigators believe there was some relationship where Mr. McDaniel was formatting or doing something with music given to him by Mr. Salandy,” police captain Paul Starks told NBC Washington.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – A 15-year-old girl is hit by a car, and she says the driver told her it was her fault before he took off.
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THURMONT, Md. —Metro Crime Stoppers is increasing the reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the hit-and-run driver who killed a U.S. Marine last week in western Maryland.
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David Cassidy charged with I-595 traffic incident
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Shortly before 9 p.m. police got a call on a person struck in the 3400 block of Foltz Street. That scene is near the Stephen Decatur Elementary School. Investigators said four teens were walking south on Foltz and a white Ford pick-up truck was going south as well.
Witnesses told police the driver veered over toward the teens and struck one of them. Detectives located the vehicle they believe was involved in the hit-and-run crash at the Walgreens in the 3400 block of Mann Rd. Officers located two persons of interest in the case.
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“The tip being called in was key to this arrest being made,” said Detective Billy Jones with Tifton Police.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – A month after a deadly hit-and-run on Rodney Parham in Little Rock, the man police say was behind the wheel has turned himself in.
35-year-old Kevin Linsley turned himself in to Little Rock police on Tuesday morning. Investigators said they had been in contact with Linsley since the day of the accident and they say he was never considered a flight risk.
Linsley is charged with negligent homicide and felony hit-and-run stemming from the accident on August 28 that killed 29-year-old Ian Canham.
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Police deal with startling number of hit-and-run crashes
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NEWARK — A television news cameraman for more than three decades, Robert Hiner used to mostly spend his days traveling around the New York metropolitan area, doing what he had to do to get the best shots possible.
“Whatever it takes when the news breaks,” said Hiner, who most recently worked for Fox 5 New York. “That’s what I always used to say.”
Now the 57-year-old Bloomfield resident spends most of his days in bed. After Hiner was struck by a dump truck in a hit-and-run accident in January, his legs were amputated and he lost vision in his left eye.
But with the help of prosthetics, Hiner said he is determined to walk again.
“I will try anything to get me back on two feet,” Hiner said on Monday in a phone interview. “I’m not a person who’s going to give up.”
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Police have arrested a woman accused of hitting two pedestrians in Hartford while she was under the influence on Monday night.
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“If you hit anything, like a bump in the road, you feel it, literally, so how are you not gonna know you hit something? Stop! I mean it’s common sense,” said Cline’s mother, Tammy Pierce.
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COCOA, Fla. — Florida Highway Patrol troopers and Cocoa police are dealing with a rash of hit-and-run crashes in the Cocoa and Port St. John area.
In the past month, police and troopers have responded to at least three crashes involving pedestrians. The latest happened Tuesday on Avon Place.
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Police are hoping some fresh attention will help them solve a hit-and-run that left a woman dead in Benton Township two years ago.
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A mother and her 2-year-old son were struck by a hit-and-run driver in Woodbridge on Tuesday, Prince William County police said, and a man was arrested soon after.
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“I wake up like every night about 3 a.m. about the time he died. There’s no closure, I don’t know anymore today than I did from the day he died,” said Lloyd.
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“I just see the crash over and over again in my head,” said Elizabeth Hamilton.
“My first thought was ‘you have to get up, you have to get up,’” Kristen Myers said.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.– Police are still investigating the death of a homeless man who was hit by a car in New Dorp a couple of months ago, according to an NYPD spokeswoman.
Robert Roesch, 54, was fatally injured when he was struck at Ebbitts Street and Hylan Boulevard in New Dorp on Aug. 17, police said. A police source told the Advance it was being investigated as a hit-and-run.
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A intoxicated hit-and-run driver offered to buy beer for the victim and his friends, Shelbyville police said.
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MIDVALE — Police want to seize more than $2,800 in alleged drug money from a woman suspected in a fatal hit-and-run crash last month.
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A streamlined hit-and-run program aimed at speeding up the effort to identify and arrest suspects is in the works per direction from the Glendale City Council on Tuesday.
Since 2007, the city has offered cash rewards on four occasions to individuals whose tips would have led to arrests. Only one, however, was collected anonymously; a $10,000 reward for information after the arrest of a driver in the hit-and-run death of a woman in south Glendale.
Historically, the City Council has voted on resolutions in order to offer rewards, but Glendale Police Chief Robert Castro said he wants that authority to be in the hands of the city manager so the money can be offered more quickly.
“The city manager could immediately authorize a reward, and we could put it out that night, if not the morning, and begin a campaign to obtain information,” Castro said during the council meeting.
Council members voted 5-0 in favor of creating the hit-and-run reward program.
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VIDEO: Family of [South Jersey] Hit and Run Victim Creates Go Fund Me Page
Caught, convicted, court appearance or car-on-car in … Martinez, Cal.; Marion, Ore.; San Antonio, Texas; Bronx, NY; Las Vegas, Nev.; Martinez, Cal.; Middlebury, Ind.; Hartford, Ct.; Caldwell, Idaho; Upper Marlboro, Md.; New York City, NY; Albuquerque, NM; Detroit, Mich.; Teaneck, NJ; Reidsville, NC; Los Angeles, 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.)