A 40-year-old Manteca man died Wednesday night in the 1100 block of East Yosemite Avenue.
Manteca Police are looking for the driver that struck the pedestrian at 8:33 p.m. and then fled the scene.
Upon arrival, officers immediately initiated life-saving measures until emergency medical personnel arrived. The individual was then transported to San Joaquin County Hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
The victim was apparently crossing the street between Powers and Mylnar avenues.
Anyone with information regarding the incident are asked to call Detective Garret Morrison at (209) 456-8212.
It was the second Manteca traffic fatality in three days.
On Tuesday, a 40 year-old motorcyclist from Lathrop that witnesses said was driving at high rate of rate eastbound on Louise Avenue collided with a vehicle turning from westbound Louise Avenue onto southbound Hacienda Avenue.
The motorcycle continued past the initial collision and collided into a light pole, which caused the light pole to fall down. The motorcycle rider was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his fatal injuries.
Police indicated that alcohol was not a factor in Tuesday’s incident.
The Thursday hit-and-run was the second pedestrian fatality on city streets this year.
The first was in August when a 49 year-old Manteca man was struck and killed while crossing West Yosemite Avenue in front of the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in the 1700 block of West Yosemite also at night.
Just like Thursday’s collision scene, West Yosemite Avenue is four lanes wide with a continuous middle turning lane.
There was a third pedestrian death in Manteca this year but since it occurred on the 120 Bypass as it passes through the city limits, it is included in CHP statistics given the agency has jurisdiction on freeways and highways.
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The third death was a homeless individual who was crossing the 120 Bypass eastbound lanes east of the Main Street interchange on May 14 that was struck by multiple vehicles.
The May 14 incident brought the number of homeless people killed crossing the freeway near the interchange to two over a 38-month period. The first was struck by a city garbage truck, also near the Main Street interchange.
A woman was critically injured in April after being struck while crossing North Main Street at night.
The incident was in the 700 block of North Main Street between Edison and Jason streets
The stretch of North Main Street between Jason and Edison streets is the deadliest area for pedestrians in Manteca.
It is where a 55-year-old man was killed crossing the four-lane arterial in November of 2017 and a 67-year-old woman was killed in December of 2016.
There have been other car-pedestrian accidents on that stretch of North Main Street.
Included among those was a March 2019 accident when two teens were more than halfway across Main when they were struck by a northbound sedan traveling in the outside lane.
A bicyclist was killed almost a block to the south near Alameda Street.
In addition, there have been several traffic fatalities as well just north of Edison. There were solo accidents that speed was considered a contributing factor.
Since 2010, 49 people have been killed in traffic accidents on the streets of Manteca.
That includes four years with six fatalities each — 2015, 2019, 2020, and 2022.
Roughly a third of those fatalities were bicyclists and pedestrians, including those struck by trains.
There have been six fatalities on the Highway 120 Bypass so far this year.
The Bypass deaths include four in a van rollover westbound approaching the Van Ryn Avenue crossing in March, a homeless individual struck crossing near the Main Street interchange in May, and a fatality in a rear-end collision eastbound near the Main Street interchange in August.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email swyatt@mantecabulletin.com
