23-year-old Perla Alvarado, killed in McAllen, Texas hit-and-run
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.
4142. Morgantown, WV. Sept. 15. Man in his twenties fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
4143. Bronx, NY. Sept. 15. 27-year-old woman fatally struck by a black sedan which fled the scene.
4144. Nantucket, Mass. Sept. 7. 47-year-old woman injured when struck by a small vehicle which fled the scene.
4145. Douglassville, Ga. Sept. 14. 41-year-old man fatally struck by a maroon or burgundy vehicle which fled the scene.
4146. Plymouth, Pa. Sept. 15. Pedestrian injured when struck by a silver vehicle which fled the scene.
4147. North Plainfield, NJ. Sept. 14. 43-year-old man fatally struck by a maroon vehicle which fled the scene.
4148-49. Gonzales, La. Sept. 16. Two women injured when struck by a black passenger car with gray racing stripes on the hood which fled the scene.
4150. Denver, Colo. Sept. 15. Pedestrian injured when struck by a green Chevy pickup which fled the scene.
4151. Salinas, Cal. Sept. 16. 22-year-old woman nearly loses a foot when struck by a beige GMC or Nissan truck which fled the scene.
4152. Albuquerque, NM. Sept. 16. Bicyclist injured when struck by a white SUV which fled the scene.
4153. Davie, Fla. Sept. 17. Man fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
4154. Mt. Airy, Md. Sept. 14. 18-year-old man seriously injured when struck by a vehicle (differing witness descriptions) which fled the scene.
4155. Livonia, NY. Sept. 18. 71-year-old man on bicycle injured when struck by a large white vehicle which fled the scene.
4156. McAllen, Texas. Sept. 15. 23-year-old woman fatally struck by a white Chevy pickup truck which fled the scene.
4157. Aurora, Colo. Sept. 16. Man injured struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
4158-59. Roseville, Minn. Sept. 17. Two Army recruiters struck by a vehicle which fled the scene, driver later found.
4160. Gastonia, NC. Sept. 19. Man injured when struck by an SUV which fled the scene, driver later arrested.
4161. Philadelphia, Pa. Sept. 19. 19-year-old man on bicycle injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
4162. Ontario, Cal. Sept. 18. 54-year-old man injured when struck by a dark SUV which fled the scene.
4163. Detroit, Mich. Sept. 19. Bicyclist critically injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
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And I quote (I)…
David Rojas, 19, is charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.
Investigators say while Rojas was driving, he is not the owner of the Dodge Caravan that struck and killed 79-year-old Cui Ju Yu Sunday afternoon at Junction Boulevard in Elmhurst.
The woman’s grieving grandson wants the driver to face the consequences of his actions.
“That’s all I really want. All my family members that’s all we really want – find the guy, find the driver,” said Winson Yu, the victim’s grandson. “People like that shouldn’t drive, definitely, I mean what he have don’t to my grandma I’ll never forgive him, whatever the reason behind it I’ll still never forgive him. He hit her didn’t even bother to stay call police and just left.”
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“I just saw a body looking out the window,” Caprise Bates said. “It was horrible.”
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An Orlando woman was arrested Monday on vehicular-homicide and other charges after police say she drove on the shoulder of Kirkman Road, hit and killed a pedestrian, then went home without stopping.
Rose Darlaine Pierre, 24, who lives in a nearby condo, drove onto the shoulder to go around traffic that had slowed about 10:20 p.m. Sunday, an arrest report states.
A witness told officers she saw a car traveling about 55 or 60 mph when it hit a man who may have been trying to cross the street at Conroy Road. His name had not been released late Monday.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Police detectives asked for the public’s help on Wednesday in finding two people identified as “persons of interest” they want to speak with after Tuesday’s hit-and-run.
Felicia Moss, 30, and Nikia Acuff, 29, were identified as two people Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department detectives wanted to speak with after the Tuesday incident.
One man was critically injured when the car hit him. He was a pedestrian.
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An Old Bethpage man walking his dog on Round Swamp Road was struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver early Thursday, Nassau Police said.
A short time later, the driver returned to the scene and was arrested without incident, police said.
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) – A former Crafton police officer, who spent a year in prison for a fatal hit and run incident, is now facing drug charges.
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SEATTLE — Suzanne Herndon was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Des Moines almost a year ago, and detectives are now releasing video that shows a witness who may be able to help identify the driver that struck Herndon.
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A 51-year-old Mount Ephraim man plead guilty Wednesday to fatally striking an elderly Blackwood, Gloucester Township woman in March with his pickup truck and fleeing the scene.
Timothy Polijczuk is expected to be sentenced in January to six years in state prison, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
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GRANDVIEW, Mo. — Kansas City, Mo., police are still searching for the person responsible in the death of 48-year-old Bobby Hays. Hays, police say, was killed when he was hit by a car on the exit ramp from I-49 to 155th Street in Grandview early Saturday morning. A day after a memorial service was held for Hays, his friends stood feet away from he was killed holding signs asking people to come forward with information.
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Authorities in Opelousas, La., are looking for two men who were apparently racing on horseback down city streets Wednesday when their horses collided with a minivan.
Police said one of the horses hit the van square, smashing its head through a window and appeared to be seriously injured. The two riders fled the scene.
Caught, convicted, court appearance or car-on-car in … Hattiesburg, Miss.; Flint Twp., Mich.; Pueblo, Colo.; Holyoke, Mass.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Shippensburg, Pa.; Miami-Dade, Fla.; Appleton, Wisc.; Richboro, 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.)