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Hit-and-run crash involving gray pickup truck

Heard on: Lake IN Law Dispatch Group Calls
01:18
00:00
We have a hit and run at (number withheld) Columbia Avenue.
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Columbia Ave, Hammond, IN 46320
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Officers are dispatched to a hit-and-run crash on Columbia Avenue. A pickup truck merging into traffic hit the reporting person’s vehicle and then drove away. Another hit-and-run reported nearby on Columbia may be related, and officers think both crashes could involve the same drivers. Notes state that the suspect vehicle is a gray Ford pickup truck. The reporting person says he is going to an animal hospital instead of staying at the scene, and the call taker asks him to return to the crash to file a report. The caller says he has an emergency and then hangs up.

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