Southern Chesco Police ID Red Truck That Fled Injury Crash

TOUGHKENAMON, PA — Southern Chester County residents helped police find the driver of an older red Chevy truck that fled the scene of an injury accident on Sunday leaving a motorcyclist with a seriously injured leg.

Southern Chester County Regional Police thanked the community after officers spent days looking for the vehicle that was part of the hit-and-run collision with a motorcycle Sunday in the 900 block of Newark Road, north of Daniel Drive, in Toughkenamon.

Police reported when they arrived at the accident scene, around 3:19 p.m., the motorcycle driver had a severe leg injury. The driver of the other vehicle in the collision fled the scene without stopping, the police report said.

The motorcyclist was taken to Christiana Hospital in Delaware, police reported. Witnesses told investigators that the truck involved was an older model red pickup, which was last seen heading southbound on Newark Road. Using the Voluntary Camera Registry database, investigators located a camera user near the crash scene and were able to find photographs of the truck, a police report said.

Based on the surveillance footage, police determined the other vehicle was an older model red Chevrolet Silverado with an extended cab pickup truck, and its front passenger-side airbag had deployed.

Police requested assistance finding the vehicle and by mid-week reported the vehicle had been identified. The police report did not say that the driver of the red pickup truck had been identified, as of Thursday afternoon.

The fiance of the injured man told a Daily Voice reporter that the motorcycle driver's injuries will require multiple surgeries and could keep the 27-year-old out of work for six months or more.

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