A 49-year-old motorcyclist is dead after a driver in a white sedan struck him and sped off in the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood of South Los Angeles early Sunday morning. LAPD officers were dispatched at 3:37 a.m. to a two-vehicle collision involving a motorcycle near Broadway and 91st Street, where they found the motorcyclist injured. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
According to KTLA, the suspect vehicle is described only as a white sedan, and police say they do not yet have details about the driver. LAPD has also not released the victim's identity, and it remains unclear whether he has been formally identified by investigators. The department is asking anyone with information about the crash or the fleeing car to come forward.
Anyone with tips can reach the LAPD South Traffic Division, which leads fatal hit-and-run investigations across South Los Angeles neighborhoods including Broadway-Manchester, at its detective line, 323-421-2577, or through 24-hour dispatch, per LAPD Online. The city also maintains a standing reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of a driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run, part of a trust fund the Los Angeles City Council created in 2015 to encourage tips in unsolved cases.
A Dangerous Stretch of South Broadway
The crash happened just blocks from an intersection with a troubled safety record. Crash data analysis has identified Broadway and Manchester Avenue as one of the 25 most dangerous intersections in the entire city, according to a report cited by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation's Vision Zero program, which designated South Broadway a priority safety corridor and funded upgrades including new pedestrian hybrid HAWK beacons to curb severe crashes.
Broadway-Manchester itself is a densely populated, 1.5-square-mile neighborhood bounded by Manchester Avenue to the north and the I-110 freeway to the west, home to more than 28,000 residents, according to background compiled on Wikipedia. Heavy multi-lane corridors cut through its residential and commercial blocks, the kind of roadway design that has made the area a repeated site of severe collisions.
Part of a Grim Citywide Pattern
Sunday's fatal crash fits a pattern researchers have flagged around timing as much as geography. Early Sunday morning hours are among the most dangerous times on Los Angeles County roads, with roughly 21% of all Sunday collisions involving a driver who flees the scene, according to a road safety report from Jacoby & Meyers. Hit-and-run collisions account for an estimated 25% to 30% of all pedestrian and vulnerable road user traffic deaths across Los Angeles County, per data cited by the County of Los Angeles Public Health department.
The trend extends well beyond county lines. Nationally, nearly 1 in 4 pedestrian traffic deaths result from hit-and-run crashes, with single-vehicle impacts representing 92% of those incidents, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics. Traffic fatalities in Los Angeles have exceeded homicides for three consecutive years through 2025, with hit-and-run deaths alone climbing from 62 in 2019 to more than 100 annually in recent reporting, per data reported by Crosstown LA.
Under California Vehicle Code Section 20001, fleeing the scene of a crash that causes injury or death is a felony carrying two to four years in state prison and fines between $1,000 and $10,000, according to Justia Law. California law requires drivers involved in such collisions to stop immediately, render reasonable aid, and notify law enforcement.
Second Fatal Hit-and-Run in Days
This is not the only fatal hit-and-run South LA has faced this month. Just a day earlier, Hoodline reported on a man using a walker who was struck and killed by a driver who also fled the scene, an investigation also being handled by the LAPD South Traffic Division. Broadway-Manchester has seen this kind of loss before, too, including the fatal hit-and-run death of a senior bicyclist in the same neighborhood reported by Hoodline last year.
Investigators have not said whether nearby surveillance cameras captured the white sedan or its license plate, and the driver's identity remains unknown. LAPD has not indicated when the victim's name might be released or whether the reward fund has produced any leads in the case.
