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   The I-Team examined data from the California Highway Patrol on   
   all hit-and-run cases in Los Angeles County for 2015 and   
   uncovered some startling figures behind the problem.   
      
   A hit-and-run crash occurs about once every 18 minutes in Los   
   Angeles, according to data analyzed by the NBC4 I-Team that   
   illustrates the extent of a problem that has been called an   
   "epidemic."   
      
   The I-Team examined data reported to the California Highway   
   Patrol on all hit-and-run cases in Los Angeles County for 2015.   
   More than 28,000 reported hit-and-run crashes during that year   
   occurred over a widespread area of the county at an alarming   
   rate and 50 percent of all incidents in Los Angeles County are   
   hit-and-run cases.   
      
   The national average is 11 percent, according to the American   
   Automobile Association.   
      
   "The numbers are extremely high," said Los Angeles Police   
   Detective Michael Kaden. "There is no rhyme or reason, that's   
   why they call them accidents."   
      
   Most hit-and-run cases do not involve injuries, according to the   
   data. They often involve a driver striking a parked vehicle,   
   then leaving the scene.   
      
   But others leave families in grief and searching for answers.   
   Frank Gillart is one of the faces behind those statistics. He   
   was crossing a street in Los Angeles Feb. 20 when a sport   
   utility vehicle driver ran him down and left him for dead.   
      
   "I couldn't believe that someone could just hit a person and   
   keep going," said his sister, Olivia Holguin. "He was a father,   
   he was an uncle, he was a person that was loved by many people."   
      
   There have been no arrests in the Gillart case, nor in the   
   January hit-and-run death of 27-year-old Korina Campos. She   
   parked her car on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles and was struck by   
   another driver as she was getting her 5-year-old daughter out of   
   the car.   
      
   Campos was killed and her daughter was injured in the crash   
   caught on surveillance video.   
      
   In an effort to track down criminals in hit-and-run   
   investigations, the Los Angeles City Council passed legislation   
   that offers up to $50,000 in reward money for information to the   
   arrest and conviction of anyone involved in a fatal hit-and-run   
   crash.   
      
   "For whatever reason, there is this epidemic, and it seems to be   
   growing," said Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch Englander,   
   chair of the city's public safety committee.   
      
   http://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/Los-Angeles-LA-Hit-   
   Run-Crash-Investigation-370821201.html   
      
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