BERKELEY, CA \u2014 A 41-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that left a pedestrian with serious injuries earlier this month in Berkeley, police said. <\/p>\n
Police say the pedestrian was crossing Adeline Street in the northbound marked crosswalk at Harmon Street around 8:10 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, when the driver struck him. <\/p>\n
The impact caused the pedestrian to land on the hood of the car, according to the Berkeley Police Department. <\/p>\n
The motorist drove with the man on the hood of the car for about 41 yards before he eventually fell back onto the road, police said. <\/p>\n
The motorist then continued driving, police said. The man, meanwhile, was left with significant head and body injuries, police said. <\/p>\n
Using flock cameras, surveillance footage and statements from witnesses, officers identified that the car involved in the crash was registered to a 41-year-old Berkeley man. <\/p>\n
Surveillance footage from the suspect’s apartment building parking garage also showed him arriving soon after the crash, police said. <\/p>\n
With the evidence, officers secured a warrant and took the suspect into custody in connection with the crash. The suspect’s identity was not immediately revealed by police. <\/p>\n
Investigators, meanwhile, are still looking for the suspect’s vehicle, authorities said. The keys were found during the search, but the car was not located, police said. <\/p>\n
The car is Black 2014 Toyota Camry with a California license plate of 8GDE554. The car has a strip of tape on the passenger side where the rear bumper seam meets the quarter panel, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKELEY, CA \u2014 A 41-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that left a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-273456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273456","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=273456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}