hit and run

Yakima Police say 28-year-old Samantha Spencer was hit as she was walking in the 1800 block of Gordon Road on Friday afternoon.

62-year-old firefighter Terry Carter of Granger was struck while he was working on a crash along I-82 on Sunday. Carter was taken to a Yakima hospital with injuries.

Police spokesman Mike Bastinelli says it happened January 23 in front of the Olive Garden restaurant on Yakima Avenue.

SEATTLE (AP) — A man accused of driving off a Seattle freeway ramp and killing a 19-year-old man inside a tent has waived his first court appearance and had bail set at $250,000. The Seattle Times reports a judge found probable cause Wednesday to hold Oscar Gutierrez-de Jesus on investigation of vehicular homicide and hit-and-run in connection with the Monday crash...

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — A Kitsap County sheriff's deputy who retired last month amid an investigation in an off-duty car crash in Silverdale has been charged with second-degree perjury. The Kitsap Sun reports that 62-year-old Kenneth Mahler was also charged Thursday with hit and run of an unattended vehicle...

WINCHESTER BAY, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials say they've made an arrest in an all-terrain vehicle crash that killed a Washington state man. The Register-Guard reports that two ATVs crashed on the dunes in Winchester Bay late Friday night...

Yakima police arrested a 29-year-old man believed to be the driver in a hit-and-run accident on the Fourth of July that injured a pedestrian.

The driver wanted in a hit and run crash last week that seriously injured a Yakima man turned himself into police and is now being held in the Yakima County Jail.

Yakima Police have found the car but the driver is still missing after a hit and run crash at 3rd Street and Maple Wednesday night that left a Yakima man with serious injuries. Capt. Rod Light says 53-year-old James Dale Henderson was crossing the street at the intersection when he was hit...

An 18 year old man from Toppenish is being treated at Harborview Medical Center after being hit by a car while crossing South Toppenish Avenue. State Patrol troopers say Oscar Zamora was crossing in the 3 hundred block just before 9 last night when he was hit by a Honda...