FAIRFAX CITY, Va. -
Police in Fairfax are looking for a hit and run driver who struck a pedestrian Friday night on Fairfax Boulevard.
That 33-year-old man is in a coma and fighting for his life.
Just ten days ago, a 27-year-old woman and her two daughters died in a crash in the same stretch of Fairfax Boulevard and a fourth victim remains in critical condition.
"People are going to fast out here at times," Sgt Joe Johnson of Fairfax Police says.
Friday night at 10:30 pm, two friends were walking east bound on the sidewalk on Fairfax Boulevard at Warwick Avenue when one of them was hit by a White Suzuki Vantera SUV. The force of the impact sent the victim airborne. He landed about 50 feet further down the sidewalk. His 17-year-old friend wasn't hurt.
Police also have some surveillance tapes from the car dealerships at the intersection.
"We've already pulled them. We have them. They're at the station right now. The Criminal investigations team is enhancing them," Sgt. Johnson says.
The man who was struck is from West Virginia. Police are trying to locate his family. Anyone with information is asked to call Fairfax City Police at 703-385-7924.
