Police seek help after hit-and-run driver leaves man in roadway in Merced

MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Police are asking for accusation regarding a hit-and-run incidental from August successful Merced that near a antheral dormant aft helium was deed twice.

On Monday, Aug. 26, astatine astir 9 p.m., an unidentified antheral successful his 40s was crossing E Yosemite Avenue adjacent Cordova Avenue successful North Merced.

Police said that the archetypal incidental was a hit-and-run erstwhile a Toyota was traveling eastbound and deed the antheral and fled the scene. The antheral was near successful the roadway.

The 2nd driver, constabulary said, struck the antheral and instantly pulled retired of the road. The operator stayed connected the country and waited for constabulary and cooperated with the investigation.

When officers arrived connected the scene, they recovered that the antheral was dead.

The postulation part is continuing to analyse the hit-and-run. The constabulary section is seeking anyone with info oregon video of the collision to interaction Traffic Officer C McKeeman by email astatine mckeemanc@cityofmerced.org oregon email Traffic Officer D Drees astatine dreesd@cityofmerced.org.