LAPD Looking For Hit-And-Run Driver Who Critically Injured Elderly Man
The Los Angeles Police Department Thursday was looking for the driver in a dangerous hit-and-run in El Sereno that left a pedestrian in critical condition.
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The Los Angeles Police Department Thursday was looking for the driver in a dangerous hit-and-run in El Sereno that left a pedestrian in critical condition.
Marlen Benitez, a wife and mother of four, was in critical condition Friday after she and her fruit cart were struck by a driver in an SUV Tuesday in San Bernardino.
A dark-colored sedan traveling southbound on Topanga Canyon Boulevard from the 118 Freeway struck a man around 5:30 a.m. Monday.
The officer knocked to the ground near his parked patrol car after it was rear-ended by a Ford F-150 going southbound on PCH, police said.
Investigators say the teen had just started riding his bike north across Rosecrans, in a marked crosswalk along Doty Avenue, when a car going east in the left lane of eastbound Rosecrans hit him at a high rate of speed.
According to the LAPD, a dark-colored SUV going south on Central hit the pedestrian, who had been crossing the street. The driver, who a witness described as male, did not stop or try to help the pedestrian.
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The elderly woman was crossing North Broadway in a crosswalk with a "Walk" signal when she was struck by a black Mercedes-Benz sedan making a left onto Broadway from westbound College Street.
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The woman was crossing Broadway in a crosswalk and had the "Walk" signal when she was struck by a car making a left onto Broadway from westbound College Street.
The male victim was crossing the street when he was struck by a black Crysler 300 with black tinted windows.
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The collision happened at about 3:15 p.m. last Friday in the 800 block of East Garfield Avenue. A 13-year-old girl was struck and severely injured, and remains hospitalized in critical condition.
Security cameras captured the green 1997 Honda Accord that hit Guerra. You can see family members running to two kids, who were injured but survived. However, Guerra died eight-days later.
Surveillance video from a nearby McDonald's show the vehicle appearing to lurch or drive over a bump as it passed by the restaurant's drive-thru entrance.
Police are searching for two vehicles that fatally struck a man but did not stop to help him in South Los Angeles.
A Highland man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run that killed an 11-year-old girl on June 29.
Deputies were called to the intersection of Church Street and Glenheather Drive at about 8:30 p.m. Monday, where they found an unresponsive 11-year-old girl on the side of the road. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
A Corona man was arrested on Saturday for felony hit-and-run after a wild crash caught on camera showed a driver speeding with a motorcycle wrapped around the vehicle's bumper.
The motorcyclist was said to have complained about pain to their arms and legs, but were otherwise fine. Nobody has been taken into custody in connection with the collision.
A hit-and-run driver in Riverside struck three people and a horse, killing a woman, causing major injuries to another, and forcing the horse to be euthanized.
According to the Fillmore Police Department, the hit-and-run happened at about 11:59 p.m. Sunday night on Santa Clara Street, east of B Street.
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A teen was shot outside a Taco Bell, across the street from the North Hollywood High School.
The Los Angeles city staff installed solar-powered lights in Lincoln Heights and Cypress Park to keep the neighborhoods bright and prevent copper wire theft.
A beloved Los Angeles taco shop, an Orange County boy being gifted a Grammy and a Southern California couple getting married on sports' biggest stage were among the ties connecting the Super Bowl halftime show to The Southland.
A teen was shot outside a Taco Bell, across the street from the North Hollywood High School.
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Police say that all three victims were found suffering from gunshot wounds in the street outside of a house party late Saturday night.
The shooting happened at around 3:50 p.m. near W. McFadden Avenue and Graham Street, according to Santa Ana police.
A beloved Los Angeles taco shop, an Orange County boy being gifted a Grammy and a Southern California couple getting married on sports' biggest stage were among the ties connecting the Super Bowl halftime show to The Southland.
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