Speeding driver kills pedestrian, injures another following sequence of crashes in Detroit

DETROIT – Officials say a speeding driver hit and killed a 60-year-old pedestrian while also injuring another driver in Detroit.

The incident occurred on Wednesday (March 6) at 5:11 p.m. on Woodward Avenue and Parsons Street.

Wayne State University Police Department initially handled the investigation before the Detroit Police Department took over.

The Detroit Police Department has confirmed that the 60-year-old man was walking by Woodward Avenue and Martin Luther King when the driver (who is a man in his 20s) of a black sedan struck him.

The black sedan fled from the location and rear-ended another vehicle, also a black sedan, near I-75 and Woodward Avenue.

“Originally, there was a vehicle driving at a high rate of speed south on Woodward as it passed Parsons, which is one block north of Martin Luther King, and struck a pedestrian.

One of my sergeants was near there and saw, unfortunately, clothing go up, and that vehicle continued on. She got out and tried to render aid. The vehicle continued on to LCA, where they rear-ended another car, and that’s when the suspect’s vehicle was then immobilized.

He got out of the car and, from what I understand, walked and then fell out. When I made contact with him, he was alert and kind of out of it. The other party that he rear-ended was stuck in the car with some serious injuries, but he’s stable.”

Wayne State University police Lieutenant Carey Glazer

A Wayne State University police seargeant witnessed the incident and ran over to help the 60-year-old man as the driver fled southbound on Woodward Avenue.

The driver then ran into the other vehicle (who is a man in his 30s) on Woodward Avenue between the Mike Ilitich School of Business and Little Caesars Arena, causing injury.

Police say the driver of the additional vehicle was transported to a Metro Detroit hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Officials say the man in his 20s, who struck the pedestrian and the additional vehicle, was arrested and taken to a Metro Detroit hospital for medical treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

Detroit Police Fatal Squad Unit has taken over the investigation.

Anyone with information should contact the Detroit Police Fatal Squad Unit at 313-596-2260 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-Speak Up.

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