hit and run

Police want to find the driver for responsible for hitting an NYPD officer with his vehicle before fleeing into a Midtown subway station Monday afternoon. Ray Villeda reports.

Police are searching for one of two cars that struck and killed a man crossing the street in the Bronx. The fatal hit-and-run occurred on Tuesday night as Sidney Sele was crossing East 211th Street, police said Wednesday. A white four-door sedan making a left turn struck the 72-year-old man before fleeing the scene. A second car ran over the…

Police say a delivery person was killed in a hit-and-run incident on the Upper East Side on Sunday.

Police in New York City are searching for a man suspected of striking a man with a stolen car and leaving him for dead. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

Two people died in a hit-and-run crash involving a tractor-trailer on the New York State Thruway early Friday, State Police said. According to their preliminary investigation, the tractor-trailer tried to make a U-turn across the westbound lanes of traffic between exits 4 and 47 in Monroe County’s Wheatland shortly before 4:30 a.m. As it did that, a vehicle traveling in…

NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A 23-year-old Newark man has been indicted on murder and other charges for allegedly fleeing the scene of a deadly stolen car crash that killed a 32-year-old woman and seriously hurt the driver she was traveling with. Tawshawn Beckford was ordered remanded without bail after his arraignment Wednesday in Staten Island Supreme Court. He was arrested after a four-month investigation…

Police released a surveillance video showing a July 19 hit-and-run at the intersection of Pitkin Avenue and Cross Bay Boulevard. A black SUV struck a 64-year-old female victim as she was in the crosswalk.

A 33-year-old Long Island woman has been arrested for allegedly hitting an 11-year-old boy riding his scooter with her truck and fleeing the scene, authorities said Wednesday. Laura Nucatola, of East Meadow, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious injury. She allegedly hit the boy on Eastgate Road in Massapequa around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, leaving…

A 61-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested in the hit-and-run death of a 29-year-old mother of three who was killed as she walked across a Manhattan street over the weekend, NYPD officials Tuesday. Joseph Chery was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death in the case of Maria Christina Villacres. She was crossing Seventh Avenue in…

A 31-year-old Long Island woman has been arrested for allegedly driving into two boys on bicycles, seriously injuring both of them, and fleeing the scene, police say. Shannon Palmer was cuffed outside her Hauppauge home early Tuesday, less than 12 hours after she allegedly hit two boys riding their bikes on the shoulder of Express Drive North in Ronkonkoma. Troy…

A 29-year-old mother of three children was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver early Sunday as she walked across a Manhattan street, NYPD officials said. Police officials say Maria Christina Villacres was crossing Seventh Avenue in Chelsea around 5 a.m. at the time of the hit-and-run. She worked at the Whole Foods store in the neighborhood and was commuting…

Maria Villacres worked at the Whole Foods store in the neighborhood and was commuting home at the time, her brother Victor told News 4 Gaby Acevedo reports.

Authorities are looking for a woman they say hit an 11-year-old boy riding his scooter and sped off Sunday afternoon on Long Island. The boy, who was hit on Eastgate Road in Massapequa around 3:30 p.m., sustained “multiple serious injuries” and was taken to a hospital for treatment, police said. He is expected to survive. Nassau County police released a…

A Queens mother of three was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver early Sunday morning after leaving her place of work in Chelsea.

Police are looking for your help finding the person responsible for hitting a pedestrian and fleeing in Fairfield. The incident occurred between 7:30 and 7:45 p.m. in the area of 2000 Redding Road, according to police. The pedestrian who was hit was 32-year-old Marileidy Morel Araujo of Matamoras, Pennsylvania who was visiting family in the area, police said. A dark…

Their Message to Suspect: ‘Turn Yourself In.’ News 4’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Giants kicker Aldrick Rosas has been arrested in connection with a high-speed hit-and-run in California, authorities said. Rosas, 25, was driving a Chevrolet in Chico Monday morning when he allegedly passed traffic over the double yellow line at an estimated 100 mph speed and blew through a red light, colliding with a Ford pick-up truck. The Chevy became disabled and…

A 35-year-old pedestrian died after three different drivers hit him on Long Island, one of whom fled the scene, police said.  The first driver hit the man, identified by police as Terrance Tuffini, of Central Islip, on Hawthorne Avenue, near Storey Avenue, around 6:35 p.m. on Friday before fleeing the scene, Suffolk County police said.  Tuffini was then hit by…

NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.