UPDATED @ 12:53 PM 12:38 PM Hit and Run Of Pedestrian On Highway 84 and Forrester Road In Cowarts
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Date: Oct 05 2024 12:45 PM
COWARTS: 12:35 PM Houston County 911 dispatched Houston County Sheriff Deputies, Ashford Rescue and Cowarts Volunteer Fire to a pedestrian struck by a vehicle.
The location is Highway 84 East and Forrester Road in Cowarts.
Houston County Sheriff Sgt. McKinney was first on the scene. Deputy McKinney reported a hit and run. The vehicle was last seen east bound on Highway 84, east bound. A charcoal gray Tahoe.
Cowarts Volunteer Fire reported a subject laying in the roadway, injured. Ashford Rescue almost on the scene. The patient is conscious and talking.
12:38 PM A citizen called into Houston County 911 and was behind the suspect vehicle on Edgar Smith Road. The vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed. The vehicle turned left on Rainbow Road.
12:40 PM The citizen following lost visual. Multiple law enforcement, Houston County Sheriff Deputies, Ashford Police, Cottonwood Police and ALEA - Troopers are aggressively searching for the suspect vehicle.
ALEA - Troopers will be responsible for the investigation of the accident.
UPDATED @ 12:53 PM
Ashford Rescue has left the scene transporting the victim, emergency, to a Dothan hospital. The on scene Houston County Sheriff Deputy thinks the pedstrian striking might not have been intentional.
ALEA - Trooper Spencer Adkinson is responding to the scene.
12:56 PM Cowarts Volunteer Fire Department has returned to service.
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