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Danville police said Monday new information has come to light connecting a driver accused of striking two bicyclists in a hit-and-run collision on Saturday afternoon to a different hit-and-run crash with a cyclist earlier that day, also on Diablo Road.
Police reported on Saturday about the major-injury crash that occurred around 2 p.m. involving two cyclists who were sent to the hospital and the driver of a Ford Escape who fled from the scene on Diablo Road near Clydesdale Drive.
Danville Police Chief Allan Shields said Monday that police learned later Saturday night that the same Ford Escape was involved in a crash with another cyclist about 40 minutes earlier just down Diablo Road.
The victim in the earlier collision was riding her bicycle westbound on Diablo Road near Alameda Diablo Road when she was hit by the SUV at around 1:20 p.m., according to Shields. Her injuries were minor and she did not require hospitalization.
The driver of the vehicle left the scene after the collision, and the cyclist didn’t report the incident until later that evening, Shields said.
The vehicle description matched that of the SUV that struck the two men cycling eastbound on Diablo Road near Clydesdale Drive 40 minutes later and then fled that area, Shields said.
Both men were severely injured and hospitalized, with one man airlifted to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley and the other brought by ambulance to the John Muir Medical Center campus in Walnut Creek.
According to Shields, police were told that both victims suffered injuries that were not life-threatening.
The culpable car is described as a silver or white Ford Escape, and additional investigation has determined that the vehicle’s year was most likely 2005-2007.
Anyone with information about the collisions or the vehicle is asked to call Lt. Doug Muse at 314-3700.