A man riding a bicycle was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Paramount late Thursday night, struck near the Rosecrans Boulevard onramp to the 710 Freeway at approximately 11:40 p.m. The driver left the scene, and as of the latest reporting, no arrest has been made and no suspect vehicle has been described.
The crash was reported by BikinginLA, which cited KABC-7 for the location and timing of the collision. According to that account, KABC-7 devoted only about four sentences to the death, and the victim's identity had not been publicly released. It remains unclear whether the man died at the scene, and the exact manner in which the crash occurred has not been publicly reported.
Details of the Crash Remain Scarce
Based on a map of the area, the onramp in question was likely the northbound 710 from westbound Rosecrans, per the BikinginLA report, though that specific detail was not confirmed by any named agency. The same account suggests the driver was apparently turning right onto the freeway and may have struck the victim either from behind or while right-crossing him on the sidewalk — but both scenarios are described only as apparent possibilities, not confirmed findings. No description of the driver or the vehicle involved has been made public, and sheriff's investigators and the California Highway Patrol said they had no leads in the case.
This marks the third bicycling death in Southern California in as many days, and the 16th bicycling hit-and-run death recorded in the region so far this year, according to the same BikinginLA report. The outlet's tally puts Southern California's total bicycling fatalities at no fewer than 51 for the year, with 17 of those deaths occurring in Los Angeles County alone.
A Grim, Recurring Pattern on SoCal Streets
Hit-and-run bicycling deaths have become a persistent feature of the region's traffic toll, with BikinginLA's own tag archive tracking bicycling fatalities case by case throughout the year. A decade earlier, a strikingly similar case played out in Pacific Palisades, where a bicyclist was killed at the intersection of PCH and Temescal Canyon Road at around 10:50 p.m. on Sept. 1, 2016, according to palisadesnews.com, which reported that the driver in that case was never found.
Clusters of closely timed cycling deaths are not unprecedented in the region. Back in January 2023, a Fullerton bicyclist's death was similarly described as the third Southern California bicycling fatality in four days, per an earlier BikinginLA report. For now, the Paramount case adds another name to a growing list of unsolved hit-and-run deaths, with the driver still unidentified and the victim's family and community left without answers.
