A 2018 AAA study showed that hit-and-run crashes were increasing in Ohio, with a 26 percent jump from 2015 to 2016.
Here are five unsolved hit-skip cases in the Miami Valley:
On Dec. 25, Hilary Williams was walking back to his car on Dearborn Avenue after a Christmas dinner with his family.
He was hit by a four-door vehicle, possibly an SUV, dark in color with tinted windows. The vehicle would damage to the right front side and a broke right headlight.
Williams died from injuries Feb. 5.
Anyone with information should contact Dayton police at 947-333-1104 or Miami Valley Crime Stoppers at 937-222-STOP (7867).
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s office is still looking for the drivers in two hit-and--run crashes that killed a 17-year-old girl and injured a 23-year-old woman.
Dyimond Wright was walking with the woman on North Main Street Jan. 22 when they both were hit.
Wright died at the scene and the woman was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Anyone with information should call 937-225-HELP (4357) or Sgt. Rick Moebius at 937-225-4217.
On Nov. 4, a stolen 2014 Chevrolet Sonic ran a stop sign at Enroe Drive and Germantown Street, hitting a Buick and shoving it into a DP&L pole.
The crash trapped Alesia Da’nae Brown, 26, and her passenger, 29-year-old Nathaniel Parker.
Brown died from blunt force trauma at the scene and Parker was taken to Miami Valley Hospital with critical injuries.
Anyone with information should contact Dayton police Det. J. Sanders at 937-333-1104.
Credit: DaytonDailyNews
A vehicle hit a parked car with a homeless man living in it, pushing it onto its side, Feb. 12.
The man was not injured in the crash.
The driver of the other vehicle fled the scene.
A parked car on Montgomery Avenue was pushed into a Springfield house in a hit-and-run crash Dec. 11.
No one was injured in the crash.
The driver was last seen in the Montgomery Avenue and Pleasant Street area.
News Center 7’s I-Team is looking into unsolved hit and runs and how difficult it is for law enforcement to solve them. Tune in at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, for Kayla Courvell’s investigation.
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