{"id":662192,"date":"2026-03-17T14:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/662192\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:29:15","slug":"white-sedan-abandoned-after-fatal-east-l-a-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/662192\/","title":{"rendered":"White sedan abandoned after fatal East L.A. hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">California Highway Patrol officers are searching for a hit-and-run driver who walked away from a deadly crash in the East Los Angeles area Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video showed the pedestrian narrowly avoiding being struck by two other vehicles just moments before the fatal collision, which was reported around 11 p.m. on Olympic Boulevard near Arizona Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The pedestrian was hit by a driver in a white sedan. The sedan, which had severe front-end damage, was left at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/03\/East-LA-ped-struck-damaged-car.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"A damaged sedan is seen after fatally striking a pedestrian in the East Los Angeles area\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2cc54444f139c6237feb673933f760c5.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A damaged sedan is seen after fatally striking a pedestrian in the East Los Angeles area on March 16, 2026. (OnScene.TV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Witnesses told officers the driver got out, walked away and did not stop to help the pedestrian he had just hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The pedestrian, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was not immediately clear whether the victim was crossing on a green or red light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Highway Patrol officers are searching for a hit-and-run driver who walked away from a deadly crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":662193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,22667,62601,45638,280172,2961,224,5337,171394,280171],"class_list":["post-662192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-east-los-angeles","tag-fatal-collision","tag-hit-and-run-driver","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-olympic-boulevard","tag-white-sedan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116244995444528061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}