OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A charge of hit & run resulting in death was filed Friday against a pizza delivery driver for the death of a pedestrian on Wednesday, who told police he didn’t know what he had hit.
Mark Radley, 59, is expected to make an initial court appearance Friday afternoon in Winnebago County court.
According to the criminal complaint, police were called to Ohio Street and W. Third Avenue at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday for a report of a vehicle-vs.-pedestrian crash. The 38-year-old man was bleeding extensively, and was declared dead a short time later. The victim has not been publicly identified.
Police were able to determine the license plate of a possible vehicle involved, and traced it to Radley. When police found his van, it had damage to the front end.
Police reviewed security footage at a pizza restaurant. He departed the store at 6:11 p.m. Upon his return at 6:40 p.m., Radley is seen returning to work “with significant damage to the front end of his vehicle. Mark gets out of his vehicle and inspects the damage. He then goes into the restaurant,” the complaint states.
Radley was stopped by police. “During this time, Mark was asked about the heavy front end damage to his vehicle and he responded, “Did I hit something?” Mark believed he struck something on Ohio Street near W 3rd Avenue / W 4th Avenue, but couldn’t recall exactly where it happened. Mark couldn’t recall what he had struck at that moment and told officers his response after striking the object was “Just kept going I guess, didn’t know what it was,” the complaint quotes him as saying.
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