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A 69-year-old Hamilton man has been arrested and charged in a fatal hit and run on Tuesday in Mississauga, Ont., Peel police say. <\/p>\n
Emergency crews responded to calls of a crash involving a pedestrian shortly before 6 p.m. in the intersection of Winston Churchill Blvd. and Dundas Street W., Const. Tyler Bell-Morena told reporters at a news conference Thursday. <\/p>\n
The pedestrian, a man in his 60s, was pronounced dead at the scene, Bell-Morena said. The victim lived in the nearby area and is believed to have been heading home before the crash, he said. <\/p>\n
The driver did not remain at the scene and police identified the involved vehicle and appealed to the public for information.<\/p>\n
The 69-year-old suspect was arrested Wednesday evening after his vehicle was identified by police. Investigators determined he lived in the Hannon area outside Hamilton, Ont. and arrested him at his home. <\/p>\n
The man has been charged with failure to remain at an accident resulting in death, Bell-Morena said. He said further charges may be laid as the investigation continues. <\/p>\n
Police appeal for bystander driver who followed suspect<\/p>\n
Investigators canvasing the area discovered that another driver may have witnessed the incident, Bell-Morena said. <\/p>\n
He said that bystander driver appeared to have followed the suspect to a nearby plaza parking lot after the crash and had “some form of interaction.” It appeared the driver was trying to hold the suspect accountable for the crash, he said. <\/p>\n
Investigators are urging that driver to come forward as they may have “invaluable first-hand accounts” of what happened, said Bell-Morena.<\/p>\n
“We quite likely have a member of the public, who followed [the suspect], tried to flag them down and say, ‘Hey listen, you just hit somebody and need to go back,'” he said. <\/p>\n
Bell-Morena said there is no indication at this time that the suspect went back to the scene after the crash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-920709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}