The Brief
- Phoenix fire and police crews launched a land and air search along a canal early Saturday after a hit-and-run driver crashed into a 7-Eleven near 75th Avenue and Camelback Road.
- First responders found the car lodged into the closed gas station with no occupants inside, following initial reports that the driver had leaped into the water.
- Salt River Project crews worked to restore power severed during the crash while Phoenix police continue searching for the missing driver.
PHOENIX – A late-night hit-and-run crash in west Phoenix sparked a multi-agency search by land and air early Sunday morning after a vehicle knocked out neighborhood power and then slammed into a 7-Eleven gas station.
What we know:
Emergency crews were dispatched around 1:45 a.m. on Sept. 27 to the intersection of 75th Avenue and Camelback Road after reports came in that a driver had crashed and jumped into a nearby canal. Responding firefighters and Phoenix police officers found a single car lodged into the gas station’s convenience store, which had closed up shop for the night, so there were no people inside.…