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. After a respite from keeping the list, it restarted in January 2019, highlighting one case a day. If there’s a case you’ve seen that deserves highlighting, drop me a line at hickey@brianphickey.com.
16841. The Phoenix Police Department is investigating a deadly hit-and-run crash that killed a 40-year-old woman and hurt a driver early Sunday morning.
16842. When deputies and emergency personnel arrived on scene, they found the individual deceased with injuries “consistent with … having been struck by a vehicle.” The victim’s identity is being withheld pending next of kin notification, officials said.
16843. Authorities say one person was killed and another was hospitalized after being struck by a driver early Monday on Interstate 35 in northeast Oklahoma City.
16844. Boston police are investigating after a pedestrian was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Roxbury on Sunday night.
16845. JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – A male pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run on Tuesday morning. According to Hinds County Coroner Jeramiah Howard, the incident happened around 6:30 a.m. on Interstate 220 northbound just south of Industrial Drive.
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16847. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – A man is fighting for his life after he was hit by a vehicle Monday night. The hit-and-run crash happened at the corner of Vance Avenue and Pauline Street in Memphis around 7:30 p.m. Officers arrived to find a man wounded; he was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Police say the driver left the scene.
16848. Mount Vernon police are searching for a motorcyclist accused of striking a 4-year-old child and one of the child’s relatives before fleeing the scene Monday evening.
16849. A week after an unknown driver injured a pedestrian near Tahoe Park in a hit-and-run, police say the victim has died.
16850. MANCHESTER, N.H. — Police in New Hampshire are searching for a hit-and-run driver in connection with a crash late Tuesday night that left an e-bike rider with serious injuries.
16851. A 31-year-old Bradenton man was killed in a hit-and-run crash Friday night in Venice, and police are searching for the driver who struck him.
16852. A 93-year-old Bronx woman walking to get food for a needy neighborhood boy was killed by a motorcycle in a hit-and-run crash Monday, cops said — as her family urged the rider to turn himself in.
16853. ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md. (WBFF) — Anne Arundel County police are asking for the public’s help as they investigate a fatal pedestrian incident in Glen Burnie that may have involved a hit-and-run.
16854. Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a pedestrian in the Pleasant Grove neighborhood of Dallas late Wednesday night, authorities said.
16855. Mesa Police on Wednesday released a photo of the vehicle they believe was used in a hit-and-run that left a 33-year-old man dead.
16856. The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a deadly hit-and-run crash on the Danziger Bridge. Police say a man was found dead in the westbound lanes of the bridge just before 4 a.m. Friday. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
16857. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Louisville mother and son were arrested Friday in connection to a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a man trying to cross Bardstown Road last weekend.
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.)