Be on Lookout!: Hit-and-run Motorist Leaves Cyclist in Critical Condition, Still At Large

San Diego News Network reports that a bicyclist is in critical condition after a motorist vehicularly collided with him last nite in El Cajon. The motorist, who was allegedly driving a dark-colored/maroon 90s GM sedan, is still at large! Warn your pro-bike/pro-justice friends in East County San Diego to be on alert and to keep eyes open for this perpetrator's vehicle!

A hit-and-run driver who struck and critically injured a 47-year-old man on a bicycle was at large Thursday, a police lieutenant said.

The bicyclist was struck shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday on East Madison, near Lindsey Street, said El Cajon police Lt. Jeff Davis. The driver fled before police and paramedics arrived, he said.

Paramedics took the cyclist to a hospital in critical condition, he said. Witnesses described the driver’s car as a dark-colored, 90s-model GM vehicle, similar to a Pontiac Grand Am or Buick.

The vehicle most likely has some front end and windshield damage, and may be maroon in color, according to Davis. Anyone with information about the motorist was asked to call El Cajon police at (619) 441-5559.

http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-10-15/local-county-news/hit-and-run-driver-at-large-thursday