Pinellas Park Police Arrest Driver After He Strikes Bicyclist and Flees the Scene Friday Night
Update: July 9, 2018:
On July 9, 2018, 31 year-old Kenneth James Robert Stivers surrendered himself to officers at the Pinellas Park Police Department. He was accompanied by his attorney and did not provide any statements to officers.
Pinellas Park Police say they received a large amount of tips in this case. The majority of these tips were useful in their ability to identify the suspect in this case.
Stivers was transported to the Pinellas County Jail on one charge of Leaving the Scene of a Crash resulting in injury. Bond is set at $5,000.
Stivers’ last known address is in Land O’ Lakes.
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Police are looking for the public’s assistance in identifying the driver of a pickup truck that struck and injured a bicyclist and then fled the scene on Friday night. Patrol units were called to the intersection of U.S. Hwy 19 N and 70th Avenue around 8:00 p.m. to investigate a hit and run crash.
During the investigation it was determined that 20 year-old bicyclist Duncan Craver was crossing U.S. Hwy 19 from east to west on his bicycle against the traffic control device. Craver successfully crossed the northbound lanes of U.S. Hwy 19 and stopped on the median between the north and south bound lanes. As Craver stood in the middle median between the north and south bound lanes, he was struck by a gold colored Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck that was traveling south bound on U.S. Hwy 19.
Witnesses to the crash reported that as the pickup truck was traveling south in the median lane through the intersection it drifted out of the lane for unknown reasons and struck Craver, and then briefly jumped up on to the median before regaining control and continuing south on U.S. Hwy 19 fleeing the scene.
Craver was transported to a local hospital for treatment of his non-life threatening injuries. A witness to the crash was able to capture an image of the pickup truck on a dash camera after the truck is seen striking Craver.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck or the identity of the driver is asked to call the Pinellas Park Police Department at 727-369-7864.