Man seriously injured after hit-and-run in North Philadelphia – NBC10 Philadelphia

Police are looking for a driver who seriously injured a man in a hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning in North Philadelphia.

According to police, the incident occurred around 2:45 a.m. near Watts and Poplar streets.

Police said the driver of a white SUV hit a 20-year-old man and then drove away. The man was taken to hospital, he is currently unconscious and his condition is critical.

If you have any information please contact the police.

The incident occurred just 24 hours after two separate road accidents that resulted in the death of two people on Friday morning.

According to police, there was one fatal hit-and-run on North 63rd Street around 1:20 a.m.

The driver – believed to be a white SUV – was traveling northbound “at a high rate of speed” when they hit a 67-year-old man– the police said.

Medics transported the man to a nearby hospital, where he died about two hours later, investigators say.

The police reported another incident the woman was thrown more than 200 feet from her shoes the driver who hit her on a street in Northeast Philadelphia simply kept driving.

Medics and police officers rushed to the 4800 block of Levick Street just before 2:30 a.m. Friday to find a woman in the street with injuries all over her body, said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small. Shortly afterwards, doctors pronounced her dead.

Police are investigating two separate fatal crashes in Philadelphia early Friday morning. NBC10’s Yukare Nakayama has surveillance footage of one of the crashes and residents’ reactions.

According to public police information, at least 45 pedestrians have been killed in the city this year. More than half of them were hit and run.

It is becoming more and more common for people to flee the scene.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, hit-and-runs accounted for only one in four pedestrian fatalities. Both last year and this year it is as many as every second case.

This year, police have made only three arrests in connection with pedestrian fatalities. Since 2019, police have only made arrests in about 11% of these incidents.