Another day, another innocent life needlessly ended by a careless driver.
One who couldn’t be bothered to stick around afterwards.
According to KTLA-5, the victim, who has not been publicly identified, was riding his bike near the intersection of Grand and Venice Blvds in Venice when he was run down by a hit-and-run driver around 9:50 pm Wednesday.
The driver was making a U-turn when he slammed into the victim, then fled the scene like the heartless coward he — or she — is.
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died later that night.
Police are looking for a dark-colored Chevrolet Bolt, which will likely have front-end damage; unfortunately, there’s no description off the driver.
It’s hard to imagine how the crash could have occurred on Venice, since it’s a divided roadway with a wide median extending several blocks. That suggests it could have happened mid-block on Grand.
Both streets have painted bike lanes in both directions, which clearly didn’t offer any benefit to the victim in this case.
Anyone with information is urged to call LAPD West Traffic Division Officer Twycross at 213/473-0235.
This is at least the 65th bicycling fatality in Southern California this year, and the 17th that I’m aware of in Los Angeles County. It’s also at least the 8th bicycling death in the City of Los Angeles since the first of the year.
Twenty of those SoCal deaths have been hit-and-runs.
My deepest sympathy and prayers for the victim and his loved ones.
I think you do a really bad job of setting up your original email. Because you need to give enough information so that people don’t have to read your whole post which is also poorly organized. I say this because he will get more information from people knowing what happened then not clicking and not knowing what happened
Sorry you don’t approve.
This plague of hit-and-run killer drivers is mind-blowing, as is the silence of public officials in the face of it. NYC has made a lot of safety progress thanks to Families for Safe Streets, made of the surviving family members of victims of traffic violence. LA is in desperate need of such a dedicated activist group, working to keep the public safe in the face of government inaction – or government collusion.
There is a group like that organized by LA Walks, but they haven’t gotten a lot of traction in the local media yet. Or forced it.