LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport Police Department is asking for the community's help in locating a black Corvette believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run with a bicycle on Wednesday evening.
The agency said that at about 7 p.m. Wednesday officers were dispatched to contact a 16-year-old male juvenile at his north Lakeport residence.
The teen reported being hit by a vehicle at 6:20 p.m. that same evening while he was riding northbound in the bicycle lane in the 1800 block of N. High Street, the Lakeport Police Department reported.
Police said the juvenile told officers that a northbound Corvette – which he described as being all black with tinted windows – hit his left hand and arm as it passed.
It caused the teen only a very minor injury, but the driver did not stop and continued northbound on Lakeshore Boulevard, police said.
The juvenile reported that he stopped his bicycle and that a northbound motorist – who was traveling behind the Corvette and was believed to have witnessed the incident – stopped to check and see if he was OK, according to police.
The Lakeport Police Department is attempting to locate the Corvette or the witness.
Anyone who witnessed or has knowledge of the incident is asked to contact Sgt. Mike Sobieraj at 707-263-5491, Extension 14, by email at
Police seek information on car connected to hit-and-run
- Lake County News reports
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