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Friday, December 20, 2013Area:
Houston, TXA man crossing the road in northwest victim becomes the victim of a hit and run driver early Saturday morning.
Houston police arrived on the scene at Airline and East Whitney just after 12:30 a.m.
They said the victim was hit by a dark colored vehicle headed southbound on airline.
Instead of stopping to help, the driver took off.
The victim was rushed to Ben Taub hospital in serious but stable condition.
Detectives said they are looking for a car with damaged to the driver's side hood area.
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Friday, December 20, 2013Area:
Hartford & New Haven, CTA Berlin woman charged with drunk driving faces more charges after the death of a pedestrian she allegedly hit with her car Saturday night.
60-year-old Debra Bailey stopped at the scene on High Road in Berlin but police say she left after firefighters arrived to tend to 36-year-old Eber Perez. Police found Bailey at her home.
Without a blood alcohol test police can still charge someone with drunk driving based on the answers to certain questions.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013Area:
Houston, TXA cyclist was killed Friday in a hit and run crash in east Houston, and police are looking for the driver of the white vehicle responsible.
Houston police said the man was crossing the 1000 block of Normandy on a bicycle around 7 p.m. when he was struck. He was taken to Ben Taub Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His name has not been released.
The driver who struck the man did not stop, police said, and could face a felony charge of failing to render aid.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013Area:
Portland, ORA Forest Grove teen pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with the crash that killed two young stepsisters playing in a pile of leaves in October.
Mario Echeverria, 18, was sentenced to 13 months in prison for hindering prosecution after the crash, according to the Washington County District Attorney's office.
Police said he and 18-year-old Cinthya Garcia Cisneros were driving home Oct. 20 when they hit and killed 11-year-old Abigail Robinson and 6-year-old Anna Dieter-Eckert, who were playing in the leaves near their home.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013Area:
New York, NYA 65-year-old woman was clinging to live after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Brooklyn Thursday. The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was crossing Eastern Parkway midblock near Utica Ave. in Crown Heights when she was hit by a westbound Nissan Murano with New Jersey plates about 10:50 a.m., officials said. She was rushed to Kings County Hospital with life-threatening injuries, cops said. The SUV sped away south on Schenectady Ave., police said.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013Area:
Las Vegas, NVThe Las Vegas woman killed in a hit-and-run crash Thursday night has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
According to Las Vegas police, 49-year-old Luv Maria Favela-Martinez was crossing Nellis Boulevard near Cedar Avenue at approximately 8:45 p.m. and was hit by a white four-door car that did not stop.
Favela-Martinez died on the scene from blunt force trauma to the head.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAA driver went down an embankment onto State Route 509 in Burien, causing a five-vehicle collision, and a husband and wife were critically injured. Five vehicles were involved. The at-fault vehicle came down an embankment on the west side of the road and rolled over when it hit SR 509. Another vehicle hit that vehicle, then was hit by a least three other vehicles. The driver of the vehicle that caused the collision tried to run away on foot, but was arrested by King County sheriff’s deputies.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013Area:
Phoenix, AZPhoenix police are looking for an ATV rider who fled the scene of a fatal dirt bike accident in Phoenix on Tuesday.
The vehicles collided in the desert near the 25,000 block of North 57th Street around 5 p.m.
The rider of the dirt bike, Frisco Davidson-Spurs Yankolovich, 20, was rushed to a local hospital, where he died of his injuries, said a Phoenix Police Sgt.
The rider of the quad stopped and looked at the victim, then left the scene, police said.
Police said there are no signs of the ATV rider.
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Sunday, December 15, 2013Area:
Trenton-NJPolice are on the hunt for a hit-and-run driver who struck and killed an elderly man Monday evening in South Toms River, New Jersey.
William Gaughan, 84, of South Toms River had just purchased lottery tickets shortly before 6 p.m. and was walking home on Dover Road at the intersection of Chamberlain Street. Suddenly, police say, he was struck by a small black or dark-colored vehicle traveling eastbound.
Police say the striking vehicle did not stop at the scene and instead continued east on Dover Road, possibly entering the Garden State Parkway northbound.
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Saturday, December 14, 2013The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office has released the name of a bicyclist killed Sunday evening by a hit-and-run driver.
He was identified as Joseph Williams, 27, of Sacramento.
Williams was killed in a crash east of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, according to the California Highway Patrol.