Hit-and-run driver at large after hitting WWU student

Police want the public's help to track down the driver who hit a Western Washington University student and fled the scene late Thursday, Jan. 16.

An eastbound car struck Seth R. Thompson, 21, just after 10 p.m. as he walked north in a crosswalk at Bill McDonald Parkway and South College Drive, by Buchanan Towers, said Bellingham Police Lt. Bob Vander Yacht.