San Jose police have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection to a hit-and-run collision that left a bicyclist dead.
Christopher Africa was taken into custody by police at his San Jose home on Wednesday without incident. Police said Africa on Friday, Feb. 12, fled the scene after striking a bicyclist in the area of Winchester Boulevard and Driftwood Drive.
The bicyclist, identified as 44-year-old Toedoro Arredando-Diaz, was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The vehicle investigators believe Africa was driving at the time of the fatal crash was a red Honda Del Sol, which was later found unoccupied with front-end damage, police said.
Witnesses told police they saw the driver of a red Honda Del Sol crash into a man on a bicycle on South Winchester Boulevard between Loma Verde Drive and Payne Avenue just after midnight Friday.
Arredando-Diaz, who was a San Jose resident, is the sixth person to die in a traffic fatality in San Jose this year.
Per @SanJosePD, driver in fatal hit & run crash on #Winchester Blvd was likely Honda Civic Del Sol like this one pic.twitter.com/1wrkLkar1Q
— Kris Sanchez (@KrisNBC) February 12, 2016
There are #bicyclelanes on #WinchesterBlvd; unknown whether that where bicyclist hit https://t.co/B0K9jdoWq5 pic.twitter.com/zj71MFfAJk
— Kris Sanchez (@KrisNBC) February 12, 2016
Anyone with info should call 911 or Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867. https://t.co/kp4F2qoVMX https://t.co/iamVjdvnTD
— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) February 12, 2016
Friday's fatal crash follows after a 60-year-old man on his bicycle died Jan. 15 in another hit-and-run accident, after police say the driver struck him twice on Delmas Avenue at West Santa Clara Street, reversing over him in order to get away.
