Hit-and-run Suspect In Milwaukee Sought After Rear Ending Vehicle And Then Striking Light Pole Igniting Auto On S. Cesar E. Chavez Drive On July 3rd, Three Reported Injured

Three victims of a hit-and-run crash were reported with non-life-threatening injures, according to police.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

July 6, 2021

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Saturday, July 3rd, around 10:53p.m. Milwaukee police responded to a hit-and-run crash that resulted with three victims reported with non-life-threatening injuries after a suspect going Northbound at an excelerated speed rear ended their vehicle at the 1000 block of S. Cesar E. Chavez Dr. in the Southside of Milwaukee. The suspect's vehicle lost control after striking the rear end of the victim's vehicle and then struck a pole. The suspect exited the the vehicle and fled on foot. The suspect's vehicle was then engulf in flames.

Police reported that three victims were injured, a 49-year-old woman driver, two passengers, a 77-year-old woman and a 7-year-old boy.

A video surveillance camera from Rivera's Western Wear caught the accident on sound video footage. Alejandro Rivera, the owner of Rivera's Western Wear posted the video on his personal FB account. 

When contacted by Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) on Tuesday, Rivera released the hit-and-run video to HNNUSA and said that to many people are driving carelessly and are speeding along S. Chavez Drive causing accidents, which in a prior incident, his wife's van was slightly struck as she made a left turn from the Northbound lane into a parking lot and another vehicle going in the same direction tried to pass her on the left side, which was the Southbound lane as the suspect headed North and didn't stop.

The video released by Rivera has his own voice report in Spanish about the multiple vehicle accidents and crashes along S. Chavez Drive that have been recorded by his outdoor surveillance camera.