A man was seriously injured and possibly killed when he was hit by a car in the 4500 block of Cedar Springs Road Friday afternoon. (Photos courtesy of Cody Fletcher)

UPDATE: The victim in this accident has been identified as John Young. His brother-in-law spoke to Dallas Voice today (Monday, June 25) and said he remains in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit at Parkland Hospital, suffering from a head injury and several broken bones. He said Young has not regained consciousness since the accident.

 

A pedestrian has been hit by a car and possibly killed in an accident about 4:15 p.m. Friday afternoon, June 22, in the 4500 block of Cedar Springs Road, where it crosses over the Dallas North Tollway.

Cody Fletcher, a real estate agent with Indio Management, told Dallas Voice that he was showing a nearby property to some clients when he saw the accident happen. He said that the driver of the car, a gray convertible with a red stripe on the hood, was driving southeast on Cedar Springs, toward The Strip, when the pedestrian — who had been standing on the northwest bound side of the street — ran into traffic.

Fletcher said the driver “swerved [to] try and miss [the pedestrian] but he wasn’t able to avoid him. The man was literally tossed in the air like 10 feet and landed on the side of the road.”

Fletcher said that first responders did not pronounce the victim dead but did imply that he was fatally injured and that “they wouldn’t be able to do anything for him.”

He also said that it seemed to him that the victim had deliberately run into traffic. “It looked intentional,” Fletcher said. “There was no way he didn’t see all the oncoming vehicles.”

Fletcher said the victim was a white man who appeared to be in his early to mid 50s. He was about 5-foot, 10-inches tall, had a handlebar mustache and was wearing a button-down shirt tucked into his jeans, with “a pack of menthol cigarettes hanging out of his pocket.”

Dallas Voice has contacted Dallas police for information. We will update this post as information becomes available.

— Chad Mantooth and Tammye Nash