{"id":400816,"date":"2026-01-11T09:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400816\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:50:15","slug":"hit-and-run-victim-in-his-60s-dies-after-being-struck-by-3-vehicles-in-studio-city-drivers-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400816\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-run victim in his 60s dies after being struck by 3 vehicles in Studio City; drivers sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">STUDIO CITY, LOS ANGELES (CNS) &#8212; Police sought the public&#8217;s help Friday in locating three motorists connected to a multi-vehicle hit-and-run that killed a man in his 60s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the Los Angeles Police Department, a white cargo was traveling eastbound on Ventura Boulevard at 5:40 p.m. Dec. 23, when the vehicle ran over the foot of a man who was sitting on the road at Ventura Boulevard and Van Noord Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said the cargo van was last seen heading eastbound on Ventura Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim was lying down on the road, where he was then struck by two additional vehicles described as a white SUV and a sedan, both also last seen traveling eastbound on Ventura Boulevard, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to the location, where they pronounced the victim dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The man&#8217;s name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Motorists are reminded that if they are involved in a collision, they should pull over and stop as soon as it is safe, notify emergency services, and remain at the scene to identify themselves,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone with additional information was urged to contact LAPD Valley Traffic Division Detective Martinez at (818) 644-8033 or Officer Hansen at (818) 644-8255. Calls during non-business hours or weekends should be directed to (877) 527-3247. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers or visit <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lacrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 by City News Service, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUDIO CITY, LOS ANGELES (CNS) &#8212; Police sought the public&#8217;s help Friday in locating three motorists connected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[193430,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-400816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-193430","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}