It happens everywhere. This pic, from a New Zealand hit-and-run.
460. Oklahoma City, Okla. May 28. Woman dies after being struck by a blue vehicle, which occurred after an argument of some sort.
461. Erie, Pa. May 28. 2-year-old girl hospitalized after being struck by a green vehicle. Details emerging.
462. San Francisco, Cal. May 28. Pedestrian killed in what’s being looked at as a potential hit-and-run. If you were in the area of Market and Octavia at 4 a.m. Friday, call the police.
463. Avilla, Ind. May 28. 17-year-old girl hospitalized after being struck by a yet-described vehicle.
464. Mechanicsburg, Pa. May 28. 10-year-old girl on a bicycle injured after being struck by “a maroon Chevrolet Monte Carlo with a Tigger license plate on the front [that] was seen fleeing from the scene.”
465. St. Louis, Mo. May 28. 6-year-old boy running to catch the ice-cream truck suffers serious injuries when he’s struck by an “older white conversion van with blue trim on the bottom” driven by a tall-and-thin “18 to 22 year old African-American man with a medium complexion” who fled the scene.
466. Jupiter, Fla. May 29. Pedestrian struck by a pickup truck with fled the early-morning scene.
467. East Meadow, NY. May 29. 46-year-old man suffers head and other critical injuries when struck by a dark-colored, older-model SUV that struck him while he walked and then fled the scene.
468. New Haven, Ct. May 30. Motorcyclist fatally struck by “an SUV with shiny rims, a broken window, and other damage” that fled the scene.
469. Philadelphia. May 30. 77-year-old man struck and killed by a “white SUV or minivan with front-end damage and possibly a broken windshield” that fled the W. Lehigh and N. Mascher scene.
470. Boston. May 30. Child on a bicycle suffers non-life-threatening injuries after being struck by a blue SUV which kept going.
471. Lawrence, Kan. May 31. 24-year-old struck and injured by a silver Nissan Maxima which fled the scene.
472. Pacific Beach, Cal. May 31. 22-year-old skateboarder struck and injured by a yet-described vehicle.
Related stories:
Family of a man struck and killed in a hit-and-run two weeks before mine sues the bar he was at beforehand. To each their own. I would never sue the Collmont.
21-year-old killed in a Karachi hit-and-run.
74-year-old man arrested in connection with a May 19 hit-and-run that left the college-student victim comatose.
Arrest made in the fatal Feb. 13 Pittsburgh area hit-and-run of a Labradoodle. (You read right.)
Los Angeles City Council posts $50K reward to help solve the April hit-and-run of a budding music producer.
Hit-and-run victim goes after hit-and-run suspect. With a gun.
Philadelphia woman involved in fatal hit-and-run of a 17-year-old girl waives preliminary hearing (translation: there’s ample evidence against her), will face 3.5 to seven years at trial.
A New Zealand hit-and-run suspect turns himself in for his crimes.
Civil case involving the deaths of two British businessmen fatally hit-and-ran in Florida moves forward.
Canadian man tries to help his daughter cover-up a hit-and-run. When you wondering why the Flyers dismantled the Canadiens, hearken back to this, eh.
Some douchebag columnist at some douchebag little paper in douchebag Fort Wayne, Ind. writes a douchebag piece about some douchebag group arguing how walking drunk is dangerous, too. No shit, douchebags. I guess I should’ve driven home the night I got hit-and-ran.
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.)