Police Wednesday sought the public’s help in tracking down a driver who fatally struck a 30-year-old man riding a bicycle in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of South Los Angeles and then fled the scene.
The crash occurred when the vehicle, which was speeding east on 67th Street toward Flower Street, hit the bicyclist as he rode east on Flower, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The driver did not stop and was last seen continuing east on 67th Street toward Grand Avenue, police said. No description of the vehicle was available.
The bicyclist was taken to a hospital by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics, where he was pronounced dead, according to the LAPD.
Anyone with information about the fatal crash was urged to call Officer Lozada at the LAPD’s South Traffic Division.