Overview
- Riverside officers approached a parked vehicle for a vehicle code violation and the driver sped away, and the fleeing car struck a pedestrian outside Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center on Monday.
- The victim, identified by authorities only as a Kaiser Permanente employee, was taken into the hospital and later pronounced dead.
- Police say the driver has not been located and no public description has been released as investigators treat the case as an active hit-and-run investigation.
- Traffic near Magnolia Avenue and Park Sierra Drive was closed for hours after the collision while officers searched the area and gathered evidence at the scene.
- Kaiser Permanente released a statement expressing condolences and directed questions to Riverside police as investigators review witness accounts and available video to determine next steps.