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The driver fled south on the highway after the collision, police said. Investigators released a photo of the car and were asking for help identifying it.

This post was updated to include additional information.

A bicyclist who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run collision Saturday, Jan. 3, at the intersection of Highway 99 and Side Street, has died, Eugene police said Tuesday.

Eugene police officers responded to a report of a vehicle-bicycle crash at the intersection, located about a quarter-mile north of Roosevelt Blvd, at 5:34 p.m., finding a 63-year-old male cyclist unconscious in the roadway.

He was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, the department said in a release Monday. In an update on Tuesday afternoon, Eugene police said the cyclist was deceased.

The involved vehicle, which police said has damage on the passenger side windshield, fled south on Highway 99, a major four-lane thoroughfare that has been a hot spot for pedestrian injuries and fatalities.

Between 2018 and 2023, at the same intersection, at least one other pedestrian has been killed and two others are believed to have suffered serious injures in traffic collisions, according to a Lookout Eugene-Springfield analysis.

Eugene police shared an image of the vehicle reportedly involved, and is asking the public to share tips with Officer Matthew Twite at 541-556-2890.

Eugene police shared this photo of a car that investigators suspect was involved in the hit-and-run. Credit: Eugene Police

The southbound lanes of the highway were temporarily closed as police responded to the Saturday crash. Eugene Police Department’s Major Collision Investigation team is investigating. 

Grace Chinowsky graduated from The George Washington University with a degree in journalism. She served as metro editor, senior news editor and editor in chief of the university’s independent student newspaper, The GW Hatchet, and interned at CNN and MSNBC. Grace covers Eugene’s city government and the University of Oregon.