By Lucas Nava & Tyler Wainfeld
Signal Staff Writers
Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies are searching for the driver of a white Volkswagen that was involved in a hit and run late Monday evening, according to Deputy Robert Jensen, a spokesman for the station.
The incident occurred just before 9 p.m. on Monday near the intersection of Annes Circle and Sandy Drive in Canyon Country, according to Jensen and Travis Wright, a spokesman for the L.A. County Fire Department. Both confirmed that a traffic collision occurred at that location and no medical treatment was provided at the scene and nobody was transported.
According to Jensen, the driver of a grey Ford sedan called in the incident, saying the vehicle was struck by a Volkswagen with a California license plate of 9EBS651. The informant initially complained of back pain but declined medical treatment, Jensen wrote in an email.
Fire Department personnel were called to the scene at approximately 8:57 p.m. and were at the scene at 9:02 p.m., Wright said. The Fire Department left the scene at 9:08 p.m., he added.
No arrests have been made and the investigation is currently ongoing, Jensen wrote.
Fleeing the scene of a traffic collision without exchanging information is a misdemeanor under California vehicle code 20002(c), which states, “Any person failing to comply with all the requirements of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine.”
