Driver Kills Pedestrian on Lakeside in Oakland

The hit-and-run driver of a white Nissan killed a pedestrian in Oakland near Lake Merritt Saturday morning. “The preliminary investigation indicates that the pedestrian was walking in a marked crosswalk on 17th Street when a vehicle traveling northbound on Lakeside Drive at a high rate of speed struck him. The suspect vehicle [driver] fled the scene and has not been located,” wrote a spokesperson for the Oakland Police Department.

Streetsblog added the correction to the OPD quote in brackets, unless the police are really seeking a car but not the driver.

KTVU anchor Andre Senior was out walking his dog and witnessed the crash:

As Senior reported, the driver appeared to be traveling between 90 and 100 mph…

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