Los Angeles police are searching for the driver of a black Dodge Durango that fatally struck an elderly woman crossing a street in Pacoima on Friday night and fled the scene. <\/p>\n
The hit-and-run happened at around 5:50 p.m. on Van Nuys Boulevard, east of Glenoaks Boulevard and the driver didn\u2019t stop, identify themselves or try to help the woman, the LAPD said in a news release. <\/p>\n
Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics pronounced the woman dead at the scene. The Los Angeles County medical examiner\u2019s office didn\u2019t immediately respond to an inquiry on Sunday about whether the woman has been identified.<\/p>\n
A reward of up to $50,000 has been offered for anyone with information that leads to the driver\u2019s identification, arrest and conviction.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information can contact the Valley Traffic Division at (818) 644-8116, which can also be reached during non-business hours or weekends at (877) 527-3247. They can also leave an anonymous tip at L.A Regional Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477 or online at www.lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles police are searching for the driver of a black Dodge Durango that fatally struck an elderly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[237,6577,48025,10810,77614,3317,77616,16694,38150,1776,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,1511,224,2489,77615],"class_list":["post-159392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-arrest","tag-authority","tag-conviction","tag-east","tag-elderly-pacoima-woman","tag-friday-night","tag-glenoaks-boulevard","tag-hit-and-run-driver","tag-identification","tag-information","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-news-release","tag-p-m","tag-scene","tag-van-nuys-boulevard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159392","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=159392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}