SEATTLE , WA : Cyclist suffers head, arm injuries in hit & run crash on Saturday, 17th September 2016
Seattle police are looking for the hit and run driver who left a severely injured bicyclist out in the road.
The crash happened along just after 8 P.M. Saturday on Northeast 98th Street.
"We didn’t hear anything. I was in the front of my house and I didn’t hear any brakes. I didn’t hear a thud of a car of something being hit," said a woman who lives nearby.
The 55-year-old victim suffered injuries to his head and arm, Seattle police said. The driver that hit him was no where to be found by the time firefighters and medics arrived, neighbors said.
"It’s horrifying," a neighbor said. "To do that and to leave… I can’t imagine somebody that could do that."
With no sign of the person responsible, police are trying to develop a description of the vehicle they were driving. It appears no one in the neighborhood actually saw the cyclist get hit.
"He had quite a few scrapes, and he had a pretty big head scrape. He wasn’t really bleeding profusely, but there was definitely a lot of scrapes on him," a neighbor said.
Neighbors said the man appeared to be in bad shape after the crash.
For his sake, she hopes the driver does the right thing and comes forward, neighbors said.
"He was really out of it," a neighbor said. "I don’t even think he realized what had happened."
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Cyclist suffers head, arm injuries in hit & run crash