A bicyclist and two pedestrians were struck Monday evening in Toluca Lake by a silver Ford Fusion with Texas plates whose driver fled the scene.
Officers saw the vehicle strike the victims about 8 p.m. in the 10300 block of Valley Spring Lane, a few blocks from Cahuenga Boulevard, according to Officer Mike Lopez of the Los Angeles Police Department and Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Witness James Bergseid described to reporters at the scene what he heard and saw.
“(The victims) had gone up over the hood and it looks like they had taken out the side mirror as they were hit on the passenger side,” Bergseid said.
“But it was the sound of this car hitting the bike and those kids and it didn’t really register with me what had happened exactly until I started hearing the screaming accompanied with that sound and what I saw.”
The victims, all adults, sustained non-life threatening injuries, and two were taken to a hospital by ambulance, Lopez and Stewart said.
The driver lost officers in the Universal Studios area, about a mile from the hit-and-run location, Lopez said.