Long Beach Man Sentenced to 60-Day CalTrans Crew for Hit-and-Run

A Long Beach man pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday to 60 days on a CalTrans crew for running down an 86-year-old woman in a fast-food restaurant parking lot in Huntington Beach and then fleeing the scene.

Taylor Kirby, 24, also was placed on five years of formal probation after pleading guilty to failure to stop at a hit-and-run accident with injury, which is a felony, according to court records.

Kirby was driving a Dodge Challenger in reverse April 22 when he backed into the victim, who was walking through the parking lot of a McDonald’s restaurant at 16866 Beach Blvd., according to police and prosecutors.

Kirby got out of the car and walked toward the rear of the vehicle where the woman was on the ground, then quickly got back to the Challenger and drove off, police said.

The woman was taken to an area hospital, where she was treated for minor injuries.

“Other family members pounded on the car to get the driver’s attention and the driver and a passenger got out of the car, saw her lying on the ground and offered no help, didn’t call the police, and then they both got back into the car and left the location and left her there,” Huntington Beach police Officer Jennifer Marlatt said earlier.

Kirby surrendered to police on April 30 after video surveillance of the hit-and-run aired on newscasts.

--City News Service, photo courtesy of Huntington Beach Police Department