Drivers report three hit-and-runs in single evening in West Reading

Shortly after 7 p.m, June 17 a man flagged down a police officer in the 300 block of Franklin Street in West Reading. His car, which he parked there a little more than an hour earlier, had dents and scratches on the driver’s side front fender and the front bumper. The offending car was nowhere to be found.

Less than a half-hour later, witnesses told police they saw a car traveling east in the 600 block of Penn Avenue when it turned around in the middle of the block striking another car.

About 11 o’clock that night, officers received a report of a hit and run at the intersection of Cherry Street and South Sixth Avenue. It wasn’t clear what the car had hit, but witnesses described the hit-and-run vehicle as an older, tan sedan with damage to the front end. It was last seen driving east on Cherry Street, but police couldn’t find the car.