Los Angeles police are searching for the driver of a Maserati who fatally hit an 80-year-old pedestrian and his dog and fled the scene in Sherman Oaks, abandoning the damaged vehicle without license plates.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Police Department officers were called at 11:35 p.m. Tuesday to the intersection of Woodman Avenue and Moorpark Street after the driver, traveling north on Woodman, struck the pedestrian and his dog, LAPD officials said.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics took the injured man to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The dog, a Rottweiler, was pronounced dead at the scene after being found near a vehicle at the curb, officials said. <\/p>\n
Police said the driver briefly stopped at the scene after hitting the man and his dog, but never got out of the vehicle. The driver then drove a few blocks away in the damaged Maserati and abandoned it, they said.<\/p>\n
So far, investigators have been unable to locate a California registration for the vehicle and believe it was at some point taken out of state. <\/p>\n
Witnesses to the aftermath told investigators they saw passengers in the Maserati, LAPD officials said.<\/p>\n
In the aftermath, family members of the victim could be seen crying at the scene. The victim lived a short distance away.<\/p>\n
There is a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the driver, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles police are searching for the driver of a Maserati who fatally hit an 80-year-old pedestrian and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75627,16034,7,9,8,2899,3816,55815,9115,8980,1555,75625,2489,75626,178,2601,9138,44812],"class_list":["post-153595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-80-year-old-pedestrian","tag-aftermath","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-dog","tag-investigator","tag-lapd-official","tag-license-plate","tag-los-angeles-police","tag-man","tag-maserati-driver","tag-scene","tag-sherman-oaks-street","tag-vehicle","tag-victim","tag-witness","tag-woodman-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}