A man was recovering in a hospital Wednesday after a driver struck him with a vehicle and fled the scene in Palmdale. The vehicle was described as a dark-colored Nissan sedan, while what led up to the crash remained unclear.
The collision happened at 6th Street East and Avenue Q-6 on September 22, according to a sheriff spokesperson cited by MyNewsLA.com. The victim suffered minor injuries and was reportedly in stable condition before arriving at the hospital, per the sheriff's department. Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel gave him oxygen and performed life-saving measures at the scene, the outlet reports.
Scanner traffic captured in the immediate aftermath described the incident simply as a vehicle-versus-pedestrian collision in which the vehicle fled the scene, according to avscannernews.com. A follow-up update from that same source identified the suspect vehicle as a dark-colored Nissan, matching the description authorities gave to MyNewsLA.com of a dark-colored Nissan sedan.
Conflicting Accounts of What Happened
What triggered the crash remains murky. A sheriff's deputy told MyNewsLA.com that the victim possibly placed himself in front of the vehicle on purpose, while separate reports from the scene described the victim and driver confronting each other before the collision and claimed the driver turned around and struck the victim intentionally. The deputy said he could not confirm the circumstances of the collision, and MyNewsLA.com reported that official details were not immediately available.
Details on the suspect and the vehicle beyond its color and make were also not immediately available, the outlet noted. After the crash, the driver drove away from the scene, while accounts of what led to the collision differed.
A Familiar Stretch for Hit-and-Run Cases
Palmdale has seen this kind of case before. In August 2016, a man was critically injured in a separate hit-and-run in the city, and witnesses at the time described the fleeing vehicle as a dark-colored Nissan or Honda-type car, according to a decade-old report from the Daily News. That case is unrelated to Tuesday's collision.
For now, the investigation into the 6th Street East and Avenue Q-6 crash continues, while the circumstances of the confrontation remain unresolved. The driver fled the scene.
