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Mariela Hernandez Alecio, 20, struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on U.S. Route 441, near the Okeechobee Golf & Country Club in Okeechobee, Florida

Date:

Friday, March 7, 2014

Area:

The Florida Highway Patrol is looking for a car involved in a fatal crash Saturday morning north of the city limits. A pedestrian was killed around 9 a.m. in the crash at U.S. Route 441 and County Road 68, near Okeechobee Golf & Country Club, said a FHP spokesman. The car is a compact vehicle that was thought to be traveling southbound on U.S. 441. It has damage to its right front side and to its right front amber light. Its right side mirror also is missing, Fletcher said. FHP did not have information on the make, model or color of the vehicle.

Man in his 20's struck and critically injured by a hit-and-run driver while trying to cross Kamehameha Highway and Hekaha Street in Honolulu, Hawaii

Date:

Friday, March 7, 2014

Area:

Honolulu, HI

Honolulu police are looking for the driver of a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run crash that left a man in critical condition. It happened around 12:30 a.m. Saturday morning near the intersection of Kamehameha Highway and Hekaha Street. Police say a man in his 20s was crossing the street in an unmarked crosswalk when he was hit. The vehicle that hit him fled the scene. Police say the vehicle may have been speeding. The victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

64-year-old-man critically injured after being struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a street in Queens, New York

Date:

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Area:

New York, NY

Police say a 64-year-old man is critically injured and in a medically induced coma after being hit by a car in Queens Friday night. The man was crossing the street on Northern Boulevard and 41st Avenue when a dark-colored Chevy Blazer hit him, police said. The driver fled west on Northern Boulevard after the accident, according to authorities. The man, who is in critical condition at Elmhurst General Hospital, has a head injury and a broken leg.

Margaret Rutledge, 51, struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in northeast Charlotte, North Carolina

Date:

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Area:

Charlotte, NC

One person was struck by a vehicle and killed in northeast Charlotte Thursday evening in what police are saying appears to be a hit and run. The incident happened around 7 p.m. on the 5500 block of North Tryon Street. Officials stated that one person, later identified as Margaret Rutledge, 51, was struck by a vehicle and has died. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said the incident appears to be a hit and run, and that the Major Crash Unit is investigating. North Tryon was shut down in both directions between Eastway Drive and Old Concord Road.

One person struck and injured by hit-and-run driver Andrew Ambriz, 25, after stealing the victims car in Ventura, California

Date:

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Area:

Ventura, CA

A 25-year-old Oxnard man was arrested Thursday for a hit-and-run incident in Ventura, police said. Police responded to a call on the 10500 block of Nopalito Street, where the suspect, identified as Andrew Ambriz, allegedly stole the unidentified victim's car, Ventura Police Department officials said. The victim, who knew Ambriz, tried to prevent him from leaving, but was struck as he drove east on Nopalito Street, police said. Ambriz stopped the car and fled on foot to a nearby residential area, witnesses told police.

Julio Alberto Moreira struck and killed by hit-and-run driver while try to cross Kuykendahl Road in Houston, Texas

Date:

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Area:

Houston, TX

A deadly hit-and-run crash closed part of Kuykendahl Road in north Harris County early Thursday morning. Harris County sheriff's deputies said a red sedan with two men inside was heading south on Kuykendahl just after midnight when a man was crossing the road near the intersection of Cypress Landing. The pedestrian was hit by the car. His body actually went into the windshield," said a Sgt. with the Harris County Sheriff's Office. "He rode on top of the car for two or three hundred yards." The man, later identified as Julio Alberto Moreira, died at the scene.

14-year-old girl injured after being struck by two hit-and-run vehicles in Santa Ana, California

Date:

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Area:

Orange County, CA

Police are searching for one of the hit-and-run drivers who struck a 14-year-old girl who darted into traffic in a busy Orange County intersection. The crash happened Monday in Santa Ana. Surveillance video released Tuesday shows the teen trying to dodge cars at 17th and Bristol streets. First, she is struck by a red pick-up truck, and the driver speeds away. She is then struck again by a black car. Though the video shows her flying into the air and appearing to land on her upper shoulders, the girl suffered leg injuries and has been released from the hospital.

Pedestrian struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver at an intersection in Stockton, California

Date:

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Area:

Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, CA

An intersection was closed in Stockton after a pedestrian was hit and killed by a vehicle. The pedestrian was hit at around 7 a.m. Monday at the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and Aurora St. and the driver left, according to police. A second vehicle may have also hit the pedestrian. It’s unknown if the pedestrian was in the street at the intersection when the incident happened. The pedestrian’s identity is being withheld. Police do not have a description of the suspect’s vehicle. They are asking anyone who may know about the incident to come forward.

Man struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing an intersection in St. Petersburg, Florida

Date:

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Area:

Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL

Investigators with the St. Petersburg Police Department are asking for the public’s assistance in locating the driver of a vehicle that fled a fatal hit-and-run crash early Sunday morning. The incident occurred at approximately 3:10 a.m. just north of the crosswalk at the intersection of 5th Ave. North and 4th St. According to a SPPD report an unidentified man was walking east from the west side of 4th St. when he was struck by an unknown vehicle. The pedestrian was thrown onto the hood and into the windshield before he was ejected onto the pavement.

Amy Taylor, struck and injured by hit-and-run driver while walking at an intersection on South Main Street in Burlington, North Carolina

Date:

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Area:

Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem, NC

Burlington police are investigating a hit and run accident that happened early Sunday morning. Police say at 12:46 a.m., Amy Taylor was walking on South Main Street. When she crossed the intersection at Sixth Street, police say she was hit by "an older model Honda Accord." Taylor told police there were five people in the car. She was treated by Alamance County EMS.