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Wednesday, March 26, 2014Area:
Trenton-NJA woman and two children were hospitalized after being struck by an alleged hit-and-run driver in South Jersey this morning.
After striking the trio at Line Street and S 5th Street in Camden, the driver of the other car fled, according to Camden County Police.
The unidentified woman and the children were taken to Cooper University Hospital to be check out after they complained of pain, according to authorities.
Police didn't reveal the extent of the victims' injuries.
The victims were put in an ambulance and as police investigated a flipped over vehicle.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014An Alamo man riding his bicycle was fatally struck by a car in Solano County near the border to Yolo County on Wednesday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The 71-year-old man, later identified as Dan Taylor, was bicycling east on Putah Creek Road about one mile east of Interstate Highway 505 shortly before 5 p.m., the CHP said.
He was riding a timed interval race through a long stretch of road that runs between orchards in the area, according to the CHP.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014Area:
Houston, TXA woman is in the hospital after a hit-and-run crash on Highway 6 in northwest Harris County.
According to Harris County deputies, the 30-year-old victim was trying to cross the intersection at Kieth Harrow Boulevard early Wednesday morning when the vehicle hit her.
Officials say the driver did not stop.
Deputies said Life Flight airlifted the victim to Memorial Hermann Hospital in serious, but stable condition. She’s expected to survive.
Investigators do not have a description of the wanted vehicle.
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Monday, March 24, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCPolice are looking for a white Toyota pickup with blue lettering on its side because they think it was the vehicle that collided with a moped and fled the scene.
They have asked the public’s help after being unable to track down the truck since the accident happened Tuesday evening, sending the moped rider to a hospital with serious injuries.
The truck is a mid- to late-2000s model and is probably still missing its right side mirror and radio antenna.
It was last seen fleeing west on U.S. 70 from N.C. 50 after the crash at N.C. 50 and Umstead Lane, police said.
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Friday, March 21, 2014Area:
Los Angeles, CAA 61-year-old woman has died after she and her 32-year-old daughter were struck by a hit-and-run driver in Santa Monica early Saturday morning.
A vehicle struck the two pedestrians around 1 a.m. on the 1600 block of Ocean Avenue, just south of Seaside Terrace as they were crossing the street, Santa Monica Police said.
The pair were not crossing the street at a crosswalk, officials said.
According to police, the vehicle fled without stopping. The suspect’s vehicle is described as a silver sports coupe with tinted windows. The suspect has been described as a Caucasian male.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014A woman in her 60s who was using a crosswalk in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood was struck and killed Thursday by an SUV driver who circled back to look at the fallen victim before speeding away, police said.
The hit-and-run at 11:15 a.m. at the intersection of Visitacion Avenue and Bayshore Boulevard marked the city's sixth pedestrian fatality of the year and 12th since December, a run of bloodshed that has put a spotlight on a longtime problem and prompted calls for more aggressive action.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014Area:
Boston, MABoston police have located the car believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run crash in the Back Bay that critically injured a pedestrian and snarled traffic during the morning commute today, authorities said.
The victim, who was an adult male, was transported to Boston Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, police said in a statement.
Officers responded to the MBTA Massachusetts Avenue station at 6:02 a.m. to investigate reports of a person struck by a car, according to Officer Rachel McGuire, a police spokeswoman.
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Monday, March 17, 2014Area:
Las Vegas, NVThe intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Windmill Lane has reopened to traffic after being closed for nearly seven hours because of a fatal crash that left two people dead.
The crash occurred around 1:15 a.m. According to police, the driver of pickup truck was speeding southbound on Las Vegas Boulevard and rear-ended a moped stopped at a red light. Both people on the moped were thrown more than 100 feet. One person died at the scene and the other died at University Medical Center. A third car was also hit by the vehicles.
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Monday, March 17, 2014Area:
Hartford & New Haven, CTAn 8-year-old New Haven girl is in the pediatric emergency department at Yale-New Haven Hospital after being struck in a hit-and-run this morning.
Police said the girl was struck by a white van at Ferry and Pine streets just before 7:30 a.m. Neighbors ran to held and the driver fled the scene.
The girl was running into a daycare when she was struck, according to a man who said he knows the victim.
Hector Rivera said the girl had run across the street to ask a bus driver if that was her bus. When the bus driver said no, the girl started running back to the daycare and was struck.
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Saturday, March 15, 2014Concord police were looking for the driver of a pickup truck involved in a fatal hit-and-run that happened on Sunday night.
Officers responded to a report that a vehicle had hit a pedestrian in the area of Willow Pass Road near Fifth Street around 11:40 p.m., police said.
A pickup truck traveling east on Willow Pass Road left the roadway, hit a pedestrian walking west on the sidewalk and fled the scene, police said.
Arriving officers found the victim deceased on the roadway, according to police.