Schaumburg police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 2:43 PM Saturday to a hit-and-run car vs bicycle crash Wise Road and Cranbrook Drive Schaumburg, IL. Police and firefighter/paramedics received a report that a bicyclist was down near the intersection. The call was initially reported as a man that fell off his bike. Police later learned that the man was involved in a hit-and-run crash.
The bicyclist — a 52-year-old man with a serious head injury — was transported to Alexian Brothers Medical Center by Schaumburg firefighter/paramedic crew on Ambulance 53.
LIVE TRAFFIC MAP of neighborhood of hit-and-run crash near Wise Road and Cranbrook Drive …
Schaumburg police urge anyone who may have witnessed the crash, or has information about the car or its driver to call Schaumburg police at 847-348-7055 or email [email protected].
Schaumburg police first released information about the hit-and-run crash at 7:12 p.m. Saturday …
WANTED by Schaumburg #police for Hit and Run w/ Injury. White 2-door sports car. Happened today, Wise/Cranbrook at 243pm. Car fled w/b Wise
— Villageof Schaumburg (@SchaumburgIL) June 29, 2014
White 2-dr sport car w/ damage to right front fender, door, or hood. Unk driver description. Call Schaumburg #police tips at 847-348-7055.
— Villageof Schaumburg (@SchaumburgIL) June 29, 2014
IMPORTANT ALERT …
Cardinal Note: As of June 5, 2013 — up to and including the date of this article — police incidents related to the above police agency are not reported in real time or within a prompt time period. Police protecting their realm of investigation and police activity, have chosen to use secret military-grade encrypted radios to withhold their police communications, which were previously open to the public and news media via monitoring of public safety scanning radios — with no known negative results locally.
The delayed knowledge or entirely blacked out knowledge resulting from encrypted police communications may protect certain police operations and investigations, but it also puts the public at risk in situations such as when armed and dangerous offenders are at large and when other similar situations occur, such as when desperate offenders of property crimes are eluding police. In other cases, the delayed or blacked out information inhibits or prohibits the possibility of the public providing early witness accounts before a criminal trail goes cold. Citizens are much more likely to recognize or recall suspicious or criminal activity if they are aware of the criminal incident within minutes or hours of its occurrence. The most serious incident involving dire results would be a trail that is allowed to go cold in the case of child abduction.
The lack of real time information from public police dispatch also weakens an effective neighborhood watch program mostly working to prevent property loss, but also working to prevent possible violent crimes.
Police have alternate ways to transmit tactical, operational or investigative information, while still keeping their main public dispatch channels open for the best balance of public safety and police safety.
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