Pedestrian dies after hit-and-run crash involving a motorcycle in Lexington
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A pedestrian died after being hit by a motorcycle that fled the scene at Russell Cave Road and New Circle Road in Lexington Friday night.
Lexington police Sgt. James Boyd said the hit-and-run collision happened at 10:04 p.m.
The Fayette County coroner’s office said the pedestrian, Matthew Austin Druin, 37, of Lexington, was pronounced dead at the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital at 10:30 p.m. as a result of complications from multiple blunt force injuries.
Boyd said Saturday that police were still investigating.
It was the third fatal collision involving a motorcycle in two days in Lexington.
Karla Ward
Lexington Herald-Leader