The late-night hit-and-run investigation follows earlier city data showing dozens of bicyclists injured in crashes over a three-year period.
MONTCLAIR, Calif. — A late-night hit-and-run investigation involving a group of bicyclists is drawing renewed attention to traffic safety in Montclair, where city records have previously documented bicycle injuries and challenges with traffic enforcement.
Police were searching Sunday for a driver after a vehicle reportedly struck bicyclists just before 11 p.m. Saturday at Kingsley Street and Tudor Avenue, south of the 10 Freeway. Authorities had not released the number of people injured, their conditions or whether anyone had died.
Video from the crash scene showed several bicycles scattered in the roadway. Police also focused part of their investigation on a car with severe front-end damage at a separate location about a mile away. Authorities had not publicly confirmed that the car was the vehicle involved in the collision.
The crash comes against a broader history of bicycle and pedestrian safety concerns documented by the city. In a 2024 City Council agenda report using Montclair Police Department data, officials said 31 bicyclists were injured and one was killed in city traffic crashes from 2020 through 2022.
The same city report said police planned traffic operations in areas with high numbers of pedestrian and bicycle crashes. It identified reducing bicyclist deaths and injuries, hit-and-run crashes and nighttime crashes as goals of the department’s traffic-safety efforts.
City officials also reported that staffing shortages had limited the department’s ability to conduct directed traffic enforcement in earlier years. Officers often handled traffic violations while performing regular patrol duties, while emergency and criminal calls took priority, according to the city report.
Those historical figures do not establish a cause for Saturday night’s crash, and police had not announced whether unsafe speed, impairment, distraction or another factor was involved. Investigators also had not released details about the bicyclists’ direction of travel or the movements of the vehicle before the collision.
The immediate focus remained on identifying the driver and determining exactly what happened at Kingsley Street and Tudor Avenue. No arrest had been announced, and police had not released a suspect description or confirmed the number and conditions of the bicyclists involved.
The investigation remained active Sunday, with major questions about the driver, the victims and the cause of the crash still unanswered.
Author note: Last updated October 25, 2026.