A husband and wife were injured when they were hit by a motorcycle while in a crosswalk on Monday night in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Falmouth police said they received a call at 8:48 p.m. Monday reporting that a motorcycle had struck two pedestrians on Main Street in front of the Estia Restaurant. Both people were in a marked crosswalk at the time.
The victims were identified as husband and wife 65-year-old David Fitch and 60-year-old Sandra Fitch, of Falmouth. Both were taken to area hospitals and police said their condition was not immediately known.
The male driver of the motorcycle was able to push his vehicle off the road and at first appeared to be waiting for emergency personnel to arrive, police said. But before officers got to the scene, the driver fled on foot into a wooded area surrounding Siders Pond behind Falmouth Town Hall.
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"He kind of stood there quietly and didn’t say a word to anyone there and then it wasn’t till about 10 mins later when police showed up that we noticed he kinda just slipped away and fled the scene,” said Demetri Markantonis, the general manager at Estia Restaurant.
Markantonis said he stayed with the couple waiting for police to arrive and that they seemed “responsive but uncomfortable.”
He said the crash happened during his restaurant's evening rush and customers filled the outdoor patio when the couple was hit. Some of those customers, we're told, jumped over the patio walls just to get to that couple.
A search of the area with the assistance of a police K9 unit was unsuccessful. The driver remains at large, and police said they have not determined his identity.
The crash remains under investigation by Falmouth police, the Cape Cod Law Enforcement Crash Recon Unit and the Barnstable County Sheriff's Office.
