By Howard Packowitz
BLOOMINGTON – A hit-and-run crash injured a seventeen year old bicyclist on Bloomington’s near west side late Friday evening, and authorities are only now releasing information about what happened there. They’re also asking for the public’s help to find out who did it.
A news release issued almost three days later said officers pulled up behind a stolen vehicle near Jefferson and Allin about 10:30 Friday night. A black male was said to have run away before the vehicle took off.
An officer found the teenager lying on the roadway at Locust and Allin. A Bloomington Fire Department ambulance took the teen to a local hospital. His condition is not known, and police said the victim’s relatives are asking for privacy.
Witnesses told authorities a vehicle sped off without headlights and struck the boy.
Dispatchers received a call that someone saw three black males, between five-foot-eight and six feet tall, run off in the nine-hundred block of North Roosevelt.
Police have not made any arrests, but claim to have recovered the vehicle, which was stolen from Urbana.
A Blooomington Police crash reconstruction team conducted an investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to call Bloomington Police at 309-434-2359, or McLean County Crimestoppers at 309-828-1111.
Howard Packowitz can be reached at [email protected]
