State police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash early Monday in which the driver struck an 18-year-old man who was walking west while pushing his bike on Route 30 in Hempfield.
Police said Christopher Allen Hays, 18, of Grapeville died at the scene of the crash near the Hempfield Pointe shopping plaza, Westmoreland County Deputy Coroner Dennis Johns said in a news release.
Hays was walking with a friend between the fog line and a raised concrete curb, police said, when a white vehicle went off the road near the Route 30 intersection with Hempfield Pointe and struck Hays at 2:15 a.m. Hays was thrown onto a grass shoulder.
The investigating trooper, Matthew G. Hartman, said in a news release that the vehicle might be a white sport utility vehicle, perhaps a newer-model Dodge Durango or something similar.
