Bicyclist Struck on Carbon City Road in Hit and Run Collision.

On May 21, 2024, at approximately 9:00pm, Officers with the Morganton Department of Public Safety were dispatched to the area of Carbon City Road and Reep Drive for a motor vehicle crash with injuries. Upon arrival, Officers located a victim who had been riding his bicycle, east, on Carbon City Road. The male reported what appeared to be a burgundy passenger car traveling behind him (east) on Carbon City Road had struck him and refused to stop or report the crash to law enforcement. The male was transported to a local healthcare facility with non-life threatening injuries and later released. Law Enforcement is currently seeking information from the public that may have witnessed this collision or have security camera footage along Carbon City Road that captured this event or the vehicle in question.