Detectives still hunting two drivers, a month after an east Plano hit-and-run left a bicyclist badly hurt

Plano police are still trying to identify two drivers more than a month after one of their cars struck a man riding a bicycle across East Park Boulevard and kept going, the department told NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth in a report published Wednesday.

The cyclist was hit around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6, on East Park Boulevard near N Avenue, a stretch with a 30 mph speed limit. Investigators believe the two vehicles were running side by side at high speed, and police say they suspect the drivers were street racing. One of the cars hit the cyclist as he tried to cross.

Neither driver stopped to help.

Police also said both cars were being driven without headlights, roughly an hour after sunset. A witness told investigators that one car looked like a black Honda Civic and the other a white SUV.

The cyclist survived, though his injuries were serious. Department spokesperson Jerry Minton told NBC 5 that tourniquets were used to stop his bleeding. "He got hit pretty hard," Minton said in the NBC 5 interview.

Detectives are asking people who live along that part of East Park Boulevard, or who drove through it that night, to check home surveillance systems and dashcams for footage of the two vehicles. Minton also urged the drivers themselves to call police, telling NBC 5 the department wants to "finish out this investigation and get some sort of justice for the person that was struck."

The NBC 5 report did not name the cyclist, and police have not announced any arrests.

Sources

NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

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