Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a driver who fled the scene after crashing into a bicyclist, who was more seriously injured than initially thought, on Monday in Ferguson Township.
At about 1:15 p.m. on Monday a a yellow Pontiac struck a woman on a bicycle on the 4400 block of Tadpole Road, near the intersection with Marengo Road. The car then traveled off the road about 100 yards through a cornfield before the driver got out and fled on foot.
The bicyclist, a 66-year-old woman from Port Matilda, was originally reported to have sustained minor injuries. Ferguson Township police said on Tuesday, however, said that she suffered broken bones in her ankle, leg, pelvis, ribs and vertebrae. She was taken first to Mount Nittany Medical Center and later to Hershey Medical Center.
Ferguson Township, Patton Township and state police searched the area but did not locate the driver. According to a release on Tuesday, police have developed a ‘person of interest’ in the investigation.
Anyone who saw a thin, white male wearing a tan shirt in the area late yesterday afternoon — possibly walking along Route 45 west of the Rock Springs/Ag Progress Days area, or asking to make a phone call— is asked to contact the the Ferguson Township Police Department through the Centre County dispatch center at 1-800-479-0050.
