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Default Los Angeles Faces Hit-and-Run 'Epidemic'

The I-Team examined data from the California Highway Patrol on
all hit-and-run cases in Los Angeles County for 2015 and
uncovered some startling figures behind the problem.

A hit-and-run crash occurs about once every 18 minutes in Los
Angeles, according to data analyzed by the NBC4 I-Team that
illustrates the extent of a problem that has been called an
"epidemic."

The I-Team examined data reported to the California Highway
Patrol on all hit-and-run cases in Los Angeles County for 2015.
More than 28,000 reported hit-and-run crashes during that year
occurred over a widespread area of the county at an alarming
rate and 50 percent of all incidents in Los Angeles County are
hit-and-run cases.

The national average is 11 percent, according to the American
Automobile Association.

"The numbers are extremely high," said Los Angeles Police
Detective Michael Kaden. "There is no rhyme or reason, that's
why they call them accidents."

Most hit-and-run cases do not involve injuries, according to the
data. They often involve a driver striking a parked vehicle,
then leaving the scene.

But others leave families in grief and searching for answers.
Frank Gillart is one of the faces behind those statistics. He
was crossing a street in Los Angeles Feb. 20 when a sport
utility vehicle driver ran him down and left him for dead.

"I couldn't believe that someone could just hit a person and
keep going," said his sister, Olivia Holguin. "He was a father,
he was an uncle, he was a person that was loved by many people."

There have been no arrests in the Gillart case, nor in the
January hit-and-run death of 27-year-old Korina Campos. She
parked her car on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles and was struck by
another driver as she was getting her 5-year-old daughter out of
the car.

Campos was killed and her daughter was injured in the crash
caught on surveillance video.

In an effort to track down criminals in hit-and-run
investigations, the Los Angeles City Council passed legislation
that offers up to $50,000 in reward money for information to the
arrest and conviction of anyone involved in a fatal hit-and-run
crash.

"For whatever reason, there is this epidemic, and it seems to be
growing," said Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch Englander,
chair of the city's public safety committee.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/investi...ngeles-LA-Hit-
Run-Crash-Investigation-370821201.html

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