The driver of a truck that struck a 25-year-old person cycling on E Marginal Way near S Dawson St near Georgetown around 2 a.m. this morning fled the scene. The victim went to the hospital, but none of the injuries were life-threatening.
A witness followed the truck after the hit-and-run and was able to get a license plate number after the driver pulled into a fast food drive-thru.
Seattle police located the suspect vehicle at the home of the registered owner, but did not locate the suspect. Officers impounded the truck.
In the Friday morning hit-and-run incident, the bicyclist, a 25-year-old man, was riding south in the 5200 block of East Marginal Way when he was hit by a truck.
The driver who hit the bicyclist drove away but a witness followed the truck. The driver then stopped at a drive-through restaurant and the witness wrote down the truck’s license plate number, police said in a news release.
Police tracked the truck to the address of the registered owner but have not been able to locate the driver. Police don’t know if the driver was a man or a woman, said Det. Mark Jamieson, a Seattle police spokesman. Police have impounded the truck.
The victim was treated at the scene and transported to Harborview Medical Center with nonlife threatening injuries.
Big ups to that witness, seriously.
What’s up with this all-out war on bumpers!
I always get seriously hungry right after I run someone down.
Sure nice to know someone stepped forward and helped the cyclist. And its great to see that the SPD has at least the car now.
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