About two thirds of this year's deadly auto-pedestrian crashes have happened at night and nearly half have been hit and runs.
"We've certainly had cases where there have been auto pedestrian collisions and the driver has left the scene and 911 doesn't get called until that next bystander just happens upon that person. So we don't know if that's been minutes, hours, days," said Capt. Stedman.
Sometimes it’s a case of people walking where they’re not supposed to like on I-35 near Cesar Chavez in August"We have seen an increase in auto pedestrian collisions on major thoroughfares," said Capt. Stedman. "They've just essentially tried to play Frogger across a highway 999 times out of a thousand. They are not going to be successful doing that.
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