Investigators sought the public\u2019s help Monday in tracking down a driver who hit and severely injured a man in his 70s before leaving the scene in downtown Los Angeles last month.<\/p>\n
The crash was reported about 11:55 p.m. June 3 at the intersection of Ninth and Hope streets, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n
A red SUV was heading east on Ninth and turning left onto northbound Hope Street when it hit the pedestrian, who was crossing Hope Street in a marked crosswalk.<\/p>\n
Paramedics took the man to a hospital for treatment of his injuries.<\/p>\n
An update on his condition was not immediately available.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the collision was urged to contact the LAPD\u2019s Central Traffic Division at 213-833-3713 to speak with Officer Herrera. Anonymous tipsters can call Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477) or visit www.lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators sought the public\u2019s help Monday in tracking down a driver who hit and severely injured a man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[818,161,11834,48,52,51,5015,47,50,49,21295,159460,16215,3161],"class_list":["post-396851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-downtown","tag-hit-and-run","tag-injured","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lapd","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-seeks","tag-severely","tag-that","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396851","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=396851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}