WASHINGTON (CIRCA via STORYFUL) — Police in Los Angeles, California, released footage on Friday that shows a hit-and-run incident during which a father pushed his daughter out of the way of a speeding car.
The footage was described by police as showing a father and his 11-year-old daughter walking across a pedestrian crossing in Glassell Park on Nov. 16, 2018.
The footage shows a vehicle approaching them at high speed and the father pushing his daughter out of the way before he is hit. He sustained a broken right femur while his daughter walked away with scratches on her face, police said.
Local media identified the father as Michael DeVore, who was walking his daughter home from school at the time of the incident.
A father is hit in a crosswalk by a speeding car right after pushes his daughter out of harm's way in Glassell Park. The father survived but the driver still hasn't been found. LAPD just released video of the red Toyota sedan. We'll hear from the father on @NBCLA this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/2MwiD6XYtr
— Jonathan Gonzalez (@JonathanNBCLA) March 22, 2019
Anyone with information was asked to contact the LAPD Central Traffic Division.
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