Atlantic County Police investigate deadly hit and run accident
ABSECON, NJ (WTXF) - Police say a man who was struck and killed early Saturday morning by the operator of a vehicle that left the scene of the accident.
Members of the Absecon Police Department and the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office Fatal Collisions Unit responded to the intersection of Route 30 and Route 9, Absecon, NJ, for a report of a hit-and-run accident involving a pedestrian and a vehicle that left the scene after striking Kyle Marcy, 26, at 4:12 a.m.
When police arrived on the scene, Marcy was transported to the Atlantic City Medical Center--City Division, where he was later pronounced dead.
Initial investigation determined that Marcy, shortly before the collision occurred, had exited the vehicle in which he was a passenger at the intersection of Route 30 and Route 9 and was struck by a vehicle which stopped briefly, then left the scene.
The vehicle from which Marcy had exited was a silver-in-color 2015 Kia Forte.
Investigators request that anyone who may have been at, or driven by, the intersection of Routes 30 and 9 at that time and observed something, or anyone else with information pertaining to this crash, call the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office (609) 909-7800, or the Absecon Police Department at (609) 641-0667