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Thursday, January 30, 2014Penbrook police are searching for a suspect in a hit-and-run that occurred early Friday along Market Street Road.
A vehicle hit a pedestrian around 5 a.m. and caused that person to suffer an arm injury. The pedestrian was transported to an area hospital for treatment, police said.
The striking vehicle left one of its mirrors at the scene of the incident as it drove off, according to police.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014A 24-year-old Broward County man has been identified as the driver in a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a 53-year-old bicyclist Friday morning, city police said. Traffic homicide investigators said Jeffrey Camenzuli of Coral Springs was driving a 2013 Kia shortly before 5 a.m. when he struck a man riding a bicycle. The crash happened in the 6300 block of Glades Road, near Jog Road, police said. The injured bicyclist was identified as Mario Sgroia of Boca Raton. He was rushed to Delray Medical Center with serious injuries.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014Area:
San Diego, CAThe motorcyclist killed in a hit-run accident in North Park early Friday was the prop master for the Old Globe theater, officials there said.
Seamus O’Bryan, 32, who also worked at La Jolla Playhouse, died after the 12:35 a.m. collision.
A passenger on his bike, a 31-year-old man whose name was not released, was hospitalized with several injuries, San Diego police said.
Police had only a vague description of the hit-and-run driver as a male in a white or cream-colored four-door sedan, probably a Cadillac.
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Monday, January 27, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZA man is in custody in connection with a fatal hit-and-run accident in Phoenix.
Darren Darnelle Hanson, 21, called police about 35 minutes after Tuesday night's accident and turned himself in, officers said.
Hanson is being held on suspicion of leaving the scene of a fatal collision.
Investigators said Matthew James Helmick, 35, was crossing in the area of 2300 West Maryland Avenue about 7 p.m. when he was struck by a car, which left the scene.
Police said Helmick was transported to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.
The case remains under investigation.
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Monday, January 27, 2014Area:
San Bernardino, CAA tow truck driver was critically injured after a hit-and-run driver slammed into him on the side of the road in Bloomington.
The incident occurred shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday when a tow truck driver with Aslan Towing out of Riverside was called to pick up a yellow Chevy Camaro on a bridge over rail road tracks near the 10200 block of Cedar Avenue.
The road is very narrow and has no shoulder.
As the tow truck driver was putting the Camaro onto the flat bed of his truck, California Highway Patrol officials say someone driving a silver Nissan Altima slammed into him at high speed.
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Sunday, January 26, 2014Police are looking for two drivers who struck a pedestrian in Hollywood in a crash that was caught on camera.
The incident happened just after 8 p.m. Monday at the intersection of State Road 7/U.S. 441 and Hollywood Boulevard, police said.
The victim was struck by a white older model Ford Expedition or SUV, then struck by a silver Hyundai Elantra. Both of the vehicles fled the scene, police said.
Video of the incident released by police Wednesday shows the moments just before the first impact. It also shows the Ford at a nearby gas station.
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Sunday, January 26, 2014The Florida Highway Patrol arrested a driver in an overnight hit-and-run crash on Interstate 95 South. A driver hit a car at about 1:15 a.m. Monday on I-95, just north of Linton Boulevard in Delray Beach. FHP said no one was seriously hurt, but the truck connected to the crash was later found. The driver was arrested and charged with DUI and fleeing the scene of an accident. FHP has not released the name of the person facing charges.
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Sunday, January 26, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZTwo people were injured during a hit-and-run collision early Monday morning in Tempe that led to the arrest of one suspect, according to Tempe police.
Officers were called to the area near University Drive and Loop 101 shortly after 12:30 a.m. Monday after receiving reports that a pickup truck had collided with a Corvette, and that the truck’s driver had fled on foot, said a Tempe police spokeswoman.
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Saturday, January 25, 2014Area:
Ventura, CAA bicyclist was killed in a hit-and-run crash involving a DUI suspect in Oxnard on Sunday, police said. The suspect was later arrested.
Gerald Zoleta Garcia, 43, was hit and killed near Rose Avenue and Raiders Way shortly after 2 a.m. According to police, Garcia was one of two bicyclists riding southbound on Rose Avenue in the bicycle lane. The suspect, later identified as 29-year-old Policarpio Diaz, was driving a black 2000 Volkswagen GTI.
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Friday, January 24, 2014Area:
Denver, COAuthorities have released the name of a bicyclist who was killed in a hit-and-run crash near Windsor.
The Colorado State Patrol stated that 46-year-old Ernesto Wiedenburg of Fort Collins was riding his bike north on the Interstate 25 frontage road near Colorado Highway 392 when he was hit at about 5:45 p.m. Saturday.
Wiedenburg, who was wearing a helmet, was thrown from his bicycle and pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.