Officials with the Barstow Police Department are still investigating after a 15-year-old kid was hospitalized following a hit-and-run incident, according to reports.
Barstow Police said that at around 5:01 p.m. on October 30, its police dispatch center received a request for service regarding a vehicle vs pedestrian hit-and-run traffic collision at a mobile home park in the 2400 block of West Main Street.
Barstow Police officers went to the scene and discovered the youngster with non-life-threatening injuries from the crash. He was brought to Barstow Community Hospital for treatment, and his condition remained unclear as of Sunday, according to authorities.
Barstow authorities investigators interviewed many witnesses, obtained additional evidence, and discovered that the youngster was riding his bicycle through the mobile home park when he was struck by a woman driving a gray Honda Civic, according to authorities.
The inquiry indicated that the vehicle’s driver, Rosalva Dominguez, 58, of Barstow, briefly halted before fleeing the site of the collision and failing to report the event to police, according to authorities.
According to police, the suspect car was discovered parked at a house in the mobile home park at 2494 W. Main Street.
Police also contacted Dominguez at her house and identified her as the motorist who allegedly hit the teen and fled the scene.
She was detained and put into the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s High Desert Detention Center in Adelanto on suspicion of hit-and-run with injuries, according to authorities.
Dominguez was released on October 31. According to sheriff’s detention records, she has not yet been scheduled to appear in court.