Crime & Safety

Police Need Your Help Finding Downtown LA Hit-And-Run Driver

The moped rider, Miguel Velazquez, was taken to the hospital by paramedics with the Los Angeles Fire Department.

(Nicole Charky/Patch)

August 24, 2022

Police are looking for the driver of a blue Mini Cooper who plowed into a man on a moped in downtown Los Angeles and then fled the scene.

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The incident, which was captured on camera, occurred at around 12:35 a.m. on Sunday, August 14.

The Mini Cooper can be seen on video traveling westbound on 3rd Street when the driver slammed into the back of the moped rider, who was waiting for the light at Flower Street.

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