An ongoing collection of unsolved hit-and-run cases, with a focus on car/pedestrian incidents, from across the country since Jan. ‘010. If you know something about any of these incidents, or one that I’ve missed, do the right thing and call the police, even anonymously.
9688. Huntsville, Ala. May 4. 22-year-old man injured.
9689. Denver, Colo. May 1. Woman injured.
9690. Westville, Ark. May 1. 12-year-old girl killed.
9691. Fresno, Cal. May 3. Bicyclist killed.
9692-93. Flomaton, Ala. May 3. 56-year-old man injured; 68-year-old woman killed.
9694-95. East Palo Alto, Texas. May 3. Two 15-year-old boys injured.
9696. Solvay, NY. May 3. 15-year-old boy injured.
9697. Portland, Ore. May 5. Man critically injured.
9698. Cape Girardeau, Mo. May 3. Pedestrian injured.
9699. Allenport, Pa. May 4. Grandmother killed.
9700. Clam Beach, Cal. May 5. 49-year-old man killed.
9701. Dover, Del. May 5. 52-year-old man killed.
9702. West Palm Beach, Cal. May 6. 32-year-old man killed.
9703. Weber County, Utah. May 6. 82-year-old man killed.
9704. New Orleans, La. May 6. Woman killed.
9705-07. Clemson, SC. May 6. Three pedestrians injured.
9708. Kansas City, Mo. May 6. Man killed.
9709. Wilmington, Del. May 6. 52-year-old man killed.
9710. Charlotte, NC. May 6. 4-year-old injured.
9711. New Brighton, Pa. May 6. 15-year-old boy injured.
9712. Tulsa, Okla. May 6. 38-year-old man killed.
9713. Phoenix, Ariz. May 7. Man killed.
9714-15. Springfield, Mo. May 7. Two pedestrians injured.
9716. Oakland Park, Fla. May 5. 28-year-old woman killed.
9717. Corona, Cal. May 6. 20-year-old man killed.
9718. Stone Mountain, Ga. May 8. 66-year-old woman injured.
9719. Jonesboro, Ark. May 7. 16-year-old boy injured.
9720. Fairfax, Va. May 6. 10-year-old girl injured.
9721-23. Denver, Colo. May 9. Grandmother, two children injured.
9724. Fort Worth, Texas. May 9. 25-year-old man killed.
9725. Parsippany, NJ. May 8. 57-year-old man injured.
9726. Dunleith, Del. May 7. 57-year-old man killed.
9727. Anchorage, Alaska. May 3. 56-year-old man critically injured.
9728. Easton, Pa. May 9. Man injured.
9729. Rochester, NY. May 9. 30-year-old woman injured.
Related stories:
And I quote (I)…
Hamilton County prosecutors on Wednesday played recordings in court of jailhouse phone calls from a man accused of hitting and killing a runner in Mount Auburn.
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KALAMAZOO, MI — A Gobles man was charged nearly six months after a hit-and-run crash that left two cyclists hurt, the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Department reports.
Drake A. Clemens, 23, was arrested in late April and charged in the Nov. 10 crash on North 6th Street near Ravine Road in Alamo Township, police said.
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MILFORD (CBS) – Prosecutors say the woman behind the wheel during a fatal Milford hit-and-run went to the car wash and spent several weeks trying to conceal evidence showing she had hit and killed a young boy.
Melissa Knight was arrested Thursday at Lasell College, where she works.
She is charged in the death of Jonathan Loja, a 4-year-old Framingham boy who was playing at a family gathering when he was hit and killed on April 16.
During a Friday arraignment, prosecutors said Knight was “first in line” at a car wash the day after Loja was killed.
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Columbus police have issued warrants for a second suspect in the March hit-and-run that killed 35-year-old Kassandra Hollinhead, according to a news release.
The police department’s Traffic Division said on Friday that TyQuandreshia Shambria Williams, 19, is wanted for leaving the scene of an accident, obstruction, driving while license suspended and no proof of insurance. She is also known as “Ty” and “Tyquandresh.”
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A 26-year-old bike courier originally from Alexandria is recuperating after what police tell him could have been an intentional hit-and-run in Minneapolis.
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Hamilton County prosecutors said two weeks before Cathy Chatfield, 57, died in a hit-and-run on Dorchester Avenue, Thomas Stidhum admitted he was involved in another.
Stidhum told investigators he hit an 83-year-old man on Hamilton Avenue.
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The number of drivers causing crashes and leaving the scene is going up at an alarming rate, officials said. Channel 9 learned that in the past five years, the rate of hit-and-run cases happening across the state has gone up 50 percent.
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“There is no sympathy from this guy,” prosecutor Chuck Thiemann said. “He expresses no remorse at all, not a shred of sentiment.”
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Authorities have released a video of a hit-and-run pedestrian killing in South Los Angeles in hopes the public will be able to identify the distraught woman motorist who got out of her car to view her victim before driving from the scene.
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Family and friends of Rick Archer, the 29-year-old courier who died in Boston last week after a hit-and-run crash, are planning a “Ghost Bike” ceremony and ride of remembrance in his honor Wednesday.
The “Ride for Ricky” will take attendees from Commonwealth Avenue and Clarendon Street, near the site of the crash, to City Hall.
The ride is meant to disrupt a budget hearing being held by the city’s Transportation Department.
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A pizza delivery driver who hit a pedestrian in 2015 and left her in the street with a broken neck and other mortal injuries was sentenced Monday to two years in prison.
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Police released video Tuesday that they hoped will lead the public to help them find the driver of vehicle that struck and critically injured an 89-year-old man in a Woodland Hills parking lot before leaving the scene without identifying himself.
Caught, convicted, court appearance or car-on-car in … Minneapolis, Minn.; Houston, Texas; Amarillo, Texas; Harrison, NY; Santa Cruz, Cal.; Ventura, Cal.; Rotterdam, NY; Odessa, Texas; Stockton, Cal.; Washington, DC; Johnson, RI; Madison, Ala.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Titusville, Fla.; Lubbock, Texas; Waterbury, Ct.; Kapaa, Hawaii; South Bend, Ind.; Durham, NC; Madison, Tenn.; Saucier, Miss.; Grand Forks, ND; Ocala, Fla.; San Antonio, Texas; Chicago, Ill.; Lancaster County, Pa.; Chandler, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Ocean Springs, Miss.; Nashville, Tenn.; Aberdeen, Md.; Exeter, NH; Boston, Mass.; Philadelphia, Pa.
More hit-and-run stories, including every volume of Hit-and-Run America (in reverse order), are accessible from this linked page. (The full Volume-by-Volume list will appear sporadically from now on.)