Man seriously injured after collision in North Philadelphia – NBC10 Philadelphia

Police were searching early Saturday morning for the driver who seriously injured a man in a crash in North Philadelphia.

According to police, the incident happened around 2:45 a.m. near Watts and Poplar Streets.

Police said a driver in a white SUV struck a man in his 20s and then drove away. The man was taken to hospital but is currently unconscious and in critical condition.

If you have any information, you are urged to call police.

This incident comes just 24 hours after two separate crashes killed two people Friday morning.

According to police, a fatal collision occurred around 1:20 a.m. along the 200 block of North 63rd Street.

The driver – possibly in a white SUV – then drove north “at a high rate of speed.” they hit a 67-year-old manthe police said.

Medics rushed the man to a nearby hospital, where he died about two hours later, investigators said.

In another incident, police said one woman was launched more than 200 feet from her shoes while the driver who hit her on a street in northeast Philadelphia continued driving.

Medics and police officers rushed to the 4800 block of Levick Street just before 2:30 a.m. Friday to find the woman lying on the street with trauma all over her body, Philadelphia Police Capt. Scott Small said. Medics pronounced her dead a short time later.

Police are investigating two separate fatal crashes that occurred early Friday morning in Philadelphia. NBC10’s Yukare Nakayama has surveillance video of one of the crashes and reactions from residents.

At least 45 pedestrians have been killed in the city so far this year, according to information from public police. More than half of these are hit-and-runs.

It is becoming increasingly common for people to flee the scene.

Before the COVID pandemic, collisions accounted for only one in four fatal crashes involving pedestrians. Both last year and this year that is one in two.

Police have made just three arrests in pedestrian deaths this year. Since 2019, police have only made arrests in about 11% of these crashes.