Family, Police Plead For Info On Hit & Run Driver
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POMPANO BEACH (CBSMiami) -- With cars all around him, a man crossed busy Atlantic Blvd near Powerline Road in the middle of traffic.This happened right in front of Letitia Harris.
"My father got hit by a car crossing," she told the stranger. Her dad is Earl King, the patriarch of a huge family. He crossed in the same place February 7th. He didn't make it to the other side.
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His daughters shared video him in the hospital. "Daddy, how are you feeling today," one of his 6 daughter's asks in the video. "Not too good," he said. My neck is fractured," he said. "My hip is fractured…My ankle is fractured."
He's one of the lucky ones, despite broken bones, he's alive. But the driver took off, leaving him in the road.
"This is our piece of evidence from Mr. King's crash ," said BSO detective Mark Kersey as he held up a shattered mirror. He has little to go on in the hunt for the driver. But that mirror is giving what could be an important clue. The mirror came from a late model Cadillac XTS.
We see people all over South Florida crossing busy streets, dodging traffic, not using crosswalks.
"Why aren't you going at the corner, at the crosswalk," CBS 4's Ted Scouten asked Eason Miller as he crossed busy Sunrise Blvd. "I mean, kind of in a hurry, don't want to take the time, so if it's clear I'll cross," Miller said.
Detective Kersey says in his two decades in traffic homicide it's very rare for anyone to get killed while using a crosswalk.
"I have yet to investigate an accident, where I have had a fatality in an intersection where the pedestrian was actually crossing with the signals and doing as the pedestrian should," said Kersey.
King hopes whomever left him hurting and injured will come forward.
"Do you want to say anything to the driver who hit you?" his daughter asked him. "I wish you could turn yourself in," he said.
If you have information that can help investigators or noticed a Cadillac XTS with a broken mirror give Broward Crimestoppers a call at 954-493-TIPS.
