PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles police are looking this morning for the driver of a white, damaged vehicle that may have been involved in a hit-and-run that killed an unidentified adult male pedestrian in west Port Angeles on Monday night.
“Officers and detectives are continuing to try to identify the subject vehicle and the deceased,” Interim Police Chief Brian Smith said this morning.
Smith said the white male, in his late 40s to early 50s, did not have identification when police found him unconscious and barely breathing, with a faint pulse, after responding to the hit-and-run at 10:50 p.m. Monday.
They found the man in the 2000 block of West 18th Street near the Clallam Public Utility District building.
The man stopped breathing and police performed CPR before Port Angeles Fire Department paramedics arrived, Smith said.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Parts of the vehicle that were found in the area indicate it is white, Smith said.
It appears the vehicle sustained significant front passenger-side damage, Smith said.
“We found a blood trail,” he said. “The blood trail led to the injured and subsequently deceased person.”
Anyone with information about the identity of the suspect vehicle and driver should call Port Angeles Police Officer Kyle Cooper at 360-452-4545 or email him at kcooper@cityofpa.us.
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Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 55650, or at pgottlieb@peninsuladailynews.com.
