A silver Dodge struck about four parked vehicles on the 600 block of Forest Avenue near Folsom Street on Saturday evening, injuring two people, according to MyNewsLA.com. The crash was reported at about 5:40 p.m. One injured person was identified as a 22-year-old man; at least one person had severe injuries and was taken to a hospital. The driver left the scene.
What the report establishes
MyNewsLA, citing LAPD Officer Miller, reported that the driver had not been taken into custody as of about 7 p.m. Saturday. The account did not identify the driver or describe the second injured person’s condition. It also did not establish what led to the collision. The custody update is limited to that reported time.
Local and statewide context
This is not the only reported hit-and-run involving serious injuries in Boyle Heights. The Daily News covered a separate incident on Whittier Boulevard near Calzona Street on Aug. 22, in which a cyclist was severely injured. The cases share a neighborhood and hit-and-run element, but involve different locations and circumstances; two incidents alone do not establish a local pattern.
Statewide, the California Office of Traffic Safety’s annual report lists five calendar-year counts of hit-and-run injury crashes: 20,122, 18,075, 20,548, 20,676 and 20,995. Those figures provide broad context, not a Boyle Heights or Forest Avenue measure, and do not explain this collision. The available account leaves the driver’s identity, the second person’s condition and the cause of the crash unresolved.
