Articles Posted in hit-and-run accident

Authorities are looking for a hit-and-run driver who they say fatally struck a security guard at a Long Beach housing complex. According to a KTLA news report, the crash occurred the afternoon of June 12 near the entrance to the Century Villages at Cabrillo housing community on the 2000 block of San Gabriel Avenue. The victim was identified as 54-year-old Derrick Smith. Continue reading →

A hit and run driver left three girls dead and one other child hospitalized and then fled the scene with the car’s passenger. Sandra Mizer, 13, Willow Sanchez, 11, and Daytona Bronas, 12, were all killed in the fatal crash.

According to a report on NBC Los Angeles, the girls were involved in an accident when a vehicle struck them as they were walking along the northbound lane of Camp Rock Road. They were pronounced dead at the scene. Natalie Coe, 14, survived but has been hospitalized in an area hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to her mother. Continue reading →

Spechelle Pope, 28, a mother of four young children, and 37-year-old Lesther Deleon, a rideshare driver taking her to the grocery store, were killed in a Palmdale car crash, which officials say involved a hit-and-run driver who was also racing on a public roadway at the time. According to reports on CBS and KTLA, the two-vehicle crash occurred early morning on June 9 on Rancho Vista Boulevard near 11th Street West next to the Antelope Valley Mall. Continue reading →

A woman was critically injured in an El Monte pedestrian accident, which officials say was caused by a hit-and-run driver who may have been intoxicated at the time. According to a KTLA news report, the major injury collision occurred the afternoon of June 2 in the 4300 block of Cypress Avenue.

Responding police officers found a woman who had suffered serious injuries after being struck. She was hospitalized and later listed in critical but stable condition. Continue reading →

LAPD officials are circulating video of a hit-and-run crash in South Los Angeles that left a bicyclist in critical condition, and are asking for the public’s help to identify the driver.

According to a report on MyNewsLA.com, the collision occurred the evening of May 10 when the driver of a maroon Kia Optima traveling east on Florence Avenue turned right onto Flower Street and struck a man riding his bicycle in the crosswalk. Continue reading →

The Los Angeles Police Department has released surveillance video of a van being sought in connection with a hit-and-run crash that left a 15-year-old boy severely injured in Los Feliz. According to a KTLA news report, the teen was struck while crossing southbound on Prospect Avenue at Talmadge Avenue the night of April 28. Continue reading →

The family of 55-year-old Reade Torrance Childres is asking for the public’s help to locate the hit-and-run driver who struck and fatally injured him. According to a KTLA news report, Childres was on a moped in the area along Crenshaw Boulevard near Westmont Avenue the afternoon of April 1st when a person driving a black Ford Flex struck the back of his moped and fled the scene. Continue reading →

Los Angeles Police Department officials have released a surveillance video of a hit-and-run crash in South Los Angeles in which an 11-year-old boy suffered serious injuries. The major injury crash occurred the afternoon of March 24 in the area of 42nd Street and McKinley Avenue as the child ran across the street trying to catch up with an ice cream truck. Continue reading →

Los Angeles police officials are asking for the public’s help to find the driver who fatally struck a bicyclist in the Van Nuys area and then left the scene. According to a KTLA news report, the deadly crash occurred early morning on March 6 near the intersection of Roscoe and Sepulveda boulevards in Van Nuys. Continue reading →