Police seek hit-and-run driver

WASILLA — Wasilla Police are looking for the person who hit a construction zone flagger on the Parks Highway early Wednesday morning.

“We’re really looking for help from the public on trying to identify the vehicle,” said Wasilla Police Department Deputy Chief Greg Wood.

He described the car that hit the flagger as a maroon older-model sedan, possibly a Toyota Corolla with a smashed-in or busted-out windshield.

A dump truck driver tried and failed to block the car from leaving but managed to get a partial license plate number — either FJ66 or FY66, Wood said.

It’s unclear, as of now, how fast the sedan was driving, Wood said. But the flagger, a 25-year-old Palmer woman, was hospitalized at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center. Wood said police are withholding the woman’s name, for now.

He said he doesn’t know her medical condition but does know she had multiple injuries.

“I know that she hit the windshield, that’s what smashed it in, and the vehicle carried her better than a hundred feet down the roadway,” Wood said.

The hit-and-run happened at about 1:30 a.m., he said. The flagger was working on a crew repaving the road near Parks Highway and Lucus Road.

A second flagger, Wood said, tried to warn the woman she was going to be hit but was unable to get the message across over the noise of the highway and the construction zone.

The sedan was last seen driving westbound on the Parks Highway. It may have turned off somewhere between Church and Lucus Roads, Wood said.

Contact Andrew Wellner at andrew.wellner@frontiersman.com or 352-2270.