Police are trying to find the drivers of three automobiles who didn’t cease after placing — one after one other — a pedestrian in Pacoima late Friday evening.
At round 11:45 p.m., a person was crossing mid-block on San Fernando Highway south of Montague Avenue within the San Fernando Valley group when he was struck by a wrong-way driver, the Los Angeles Police Division mentioned. The sunshine-colored pickup truck was touring northbound in southbound lanes.
The person, described as Latino and in his late 20s or early 30s, fell to the bottom and was attempting to get again up when he was hit by a second automobile, a light-colored full-size SUV, within the northbound lane.
“The power of the second collision threw the pedestrian onto southbound lanes, the place he was run over by a 3rd car,” the LAPD mentioned in a information launch. That automobile was described as a dark-colored midsize SUV.
All three drivers didn’t cease, render support and stay on the scene, which is required by regulation, police mentioned.
The pedestrian was pronounced useless on the scene. His identify was withheld pending identification and notification of subsequent of kin by the Los Angeles County coroner’s workplace.
As of Sunday night, no suspects had been taken into custody, in accordance with LAPD Officer Tony Im, and the drivers remained at massive.
Town is providing a reward of as much as $50,000 for anybody who offers data resulting in the arrest of the drivers. The LAPD is asking anybody with data to contact the division’s Valley Site visitors Division at (818) 644-8022.
