Hit-and-Run Driver Who Struck Tarzana Man Sought
Authorities were searching Thursday for a hit-and-run driver who struck and badly injured a Tarzana man the night before.
Police said several men were standing on the pavement in the 400 block of Harvard Road in Burbank at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday when a motorist, traveling east, tried to pass. Los Angeles Police Lt. Chris Welker said the men refused to move out of the way and surrounded the stopped car. The men then started arguing with the motorist, who accelerated, running over Jaimy Felix, 19, of Tarzana and flipping a 17-year-old boy over the hood of the car, police said. The 17-year-old was not injured.
Friends rushed Felix to Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center in Tarzana where he was treated for a broken leg and “significant internal injuries,” according to Welker.
The suspected hit-and-run driver was in a two-door compact car and was described as a white man, 20 to 30 years old with dark hair.
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