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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.
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Thursday, January 23, 2014Police in Hercules are asking for the public’s help in finding a driver involved in a hit-and-run collision that left an elderly pedestrian with serious injuries.
The pedestrian, a 70-year-old man, was walking in a crosswalk in the 1300 block of Willow Avenue when an SUV heading south on Willow Avenue hit and knocked him to the ground, according to a police detective.
Witnesses told police that the driver of the SUV got out of the car and approached the victim and when a witness asked the driver if the victim was ok, he said, “He’s breathing,” Van Putten said.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014Area:
Los Angeles, CATwo Los Angeles police officers are recovering after a suspected drunken driver crashed into them, then sped away from the scene.
Investigators say the officers were traveling northbound on Vermont Avenue, just south of 74th Street, when they were rear-ended by a white BMW around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The officers' vehicle was disabled in the crash, and the suspect's car received front-end damage and a broken rim.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
Chicago, ILA 13-year-old boy was in the hospital Tuesday after he was injured in a hit-and-run crash.
The accident happened Monday night near Pulaski and Congress in Garfield Park. The 13-year old was crossing the street around 7 p.m. when police say the driver hit the boy, then took off down Pulaski heading south.
The boy was taken in serious-to-critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, a Chicago Fire Department Media Affairs spokesman said.
Area North detectives are investigating.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYA woman and two children who were traveling in the second vehicle, an SUV, were transported to area hospital, but their injuries are not considered life-threatening, MetroSafe said. The woman was taken to University Hospital; the two children to Kosair Children's Hospital. The crash occurred on U.S. 42 at Woodstone Way at 3:03 p.m. U.S. was closed in both directions, from Wolf Pen Branch Road to Seminary Drive for more than an hour but has since reopened.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
St. Louis, MOAn elderly man struck and killed in a hit-and-run accident in Hillsboro early Monday morning. According to officials with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Ronald Arndt, 80, was hit on northbound Route B near Marshak Way at 6:10 a.m. Arndt was reportedly laying in the road at the time of the accident. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers are searching for a suspect who is believed to be driving a maroon late 1990s Ford Ranger pickup truck with lower passenger-side damage.