hit and run

San Diego police are offering a reward for help finding the hit-and-run driver who killed a skateboarder in Ocean Beach last month.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is seeking help from the public to identify the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed a pedestrian crossing the street in Pico Rivera.

The driver of an SUV that plowed into three pedestrians and a horse in Mead Valley, killing an 18-year-old Riverside woman, was at large Monday, with the California Highway Patrol seeking the public’s help identifying the suspect. The hit-and-run occurred about 9:15 p.m. Sunday on Markham Street, just east of Alexander Street, according to the CHP. Officer Juan Quintero...

Police are seeking the public’s help in providing any information that would lead to the identification and arrest of a hit-and-run motorist who struck a woman on the outskirts of Beverly Hills, leaving her severely injured. The crash occurred about 9 p.m. Saturday at La Cienega Boulevard and Third Street, the Los Angeles Police Department reported. A vehicle going...

A homeless man killed in a double hit-and-run crash in South Los Angeles was identified Saturday. The coroner’s office reported that 67-year-old Richard Hernandez Hernandez died at the scene after he was hit by two vehicles shortly before 4 a.m. Wednesday on Main Street at 47th Place, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. A white 2005- to 2010-model...

A Los Angeles Fire Department assistant chief is facing two misdemeanor charges for allegedly crashing his personal vehicle into a parked car in Santa Clarita and fleeing from the scene in January. Ellsworth S. Fortman, 54, was charged last week with one misdemeanor count of hit-and-run driving resulting in property damage and driving a motor vehicle without a valid driver’s…

Deputies are trying to identify a woman found dead on the side of the road in Lancaster, following a suspected hit and run Saturday night, the sheriff’s department said Sunday. At 7:20 p.m. Saturday, a man discovered the victim near Avenue L and Challenger Way and alerted authorities, according to L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Clinton Skaggs, with the...

A Lancaster man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and other charges stemming from a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in August 2018. James Gonzalez, 39, faces one count each of murder, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, vehicular manslaughter with gross negligenceand hit-and-run driving resulting in death or serious injury to another person. Gonzalez — who is due back…

A $50,000 reward was being offered Monday for information about a hit-and-run that left an 87-year-old man dead in the Westlake area. The man was struck by two vehicles around 4 a.m. Feb. 22 on Eighth Street, west of Westmoreland Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. “The suspect driving a white four-door BMW sedan was traveling eastbound on…

Los Angeles traffic detectives were searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck and seriously hurt a man Sunday in Koreatown. The crash occurred about 3:30 a.m. on Ardmore Avenue, LAPD West traffic detectives said. According to police, a vehicle exiting westbound from a private parking lot on Ardmore Avenue north of Sixth Street hit a man in his 30s walking…

A San Diego man who the California Department of Insurance says falsified a stolen vehicle report when he was actually involved in a hit-and-run crash that injured a child was arraigned on Thursday. Roberto Garcia faces charges of presenting a false vehicle claim to an insurance company, felony hit-and-run, and false report of theft in connection to a car crash…

Family members wept and pleaded with the public to help find the hit-and-run driver whose car struck and killed a woman and badly injured her husband in Echo Park. Morena Del Carmen Alvarado-Lopez, 58, and her husband were walking northbound on Sunset Boulevard, east of White Knoll Drive, about 12:50 a.m. Monday after they had just finished their date night….

A woman accused of hate crimes in the Des Moines area, including intentionally running over a girl she thought was Mexican, has been ruled incompetent for trial.

A husband on a mission to find the driver who hit and killed his wife and mother of eight children may have found the killer on his own, Corona police said. Brenda Richardson was killed when a white Lexus hit her motorcycle on River Road in Corona Wednesday, police said. Richardson was thrown 30 feet from her motorcycle and taken…

A man on a mission to find the driver who hit his wife, mother of their 8 children, discovered the suspect vehicle. Robert Kovacik reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, 2020.

Police on Saturday offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the driver of a black 2004 Honda Accord that struck a 92-year-old pedestrian in a hit-and-run in the Westlake area. The man was struck at 8:30 a.m. Friday near James M. Wood Boulevard and Burlington Avenue, one block north of Olympic Boulevard, according to the Los…

The LAPD has announced a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of a driver wanted for a hit-and-run that left a 92-year-old man injured.

Police are looking for the driver of a black Honda Accord. Although they captured the license plate of the vehicle involved in the hit-and-run on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, the registration was not up to date.

A driver who pulled over amid a dispute with a motorcyclist was killed early Tuesday in Hollywood when she fell out of her car and was run over, possibly by her passenger, who took off and was later arrested by police. Sophia Ardalan, 27, was fatally injured about midnight in the 1300 block of North Martel Avenue, near Sunset Boulevard,…

People in North Park are saying looking both ways before crossing the street just isn’t enough. The news of two fatal hit-and-runs in just the past few days is scaring the walkable community.