Police are searching for the driver who critically injured a man in a hit-and-run crash in North Philadelphia early Saturday morning.

According to police, the incident occurred around 2:45 a.m. near Watts and Poplar Streets.

Police say a driver in a white SUV hit a man in his 20s and then drove away. The man was taken to hospital and is currently unconscious and in critical condition.

If you have any information, you are asked to call the police.

This incident comes just 24 hours after two separate hit-and-run crashes resulted in two deaths Friday morning.

According to police, a fatal hit-and-run occurred around 1:20 a.m. in the 200 block of North 63rd Street.

The driver, possibly in a white SUV, was heading north “at a high rate of speed.” They attacked a 67-year-old mansaid the policeman.

Investigators said paramedics took the man to a nearby hospital, where he died about two hours later.

In another incident police said: a woman was thrown more than 60 meters from her shoes The driver who hit him on a Northeast Philadelphia street continued on his way.

Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said paramedics and police officers rushed to the 4800 block of Levick Street just before 2:30 a.m. Friday and found the traumatized woman on the street. Shortly after, doctors declared him dead.

Police are investigating two separate fatal hit-and-run crashes in Philadelphia early Friday morning. NBC10’s Yukare Nakayama has surveillance video of one of the crashes and residents’ reactions.

According to the information provided by the public police, at least 45 pedestrians have died in the city so far this year. More than half of them were hit and runs.

It is becoming increasingly common for people to flee the scene.

Before the COVID pandemic, hit-and-runs accounted for only one in four fatal crashes involving pedestrians. Both last year and now this year it goes up to one in every two people.

Police have made only three arrests in pedestrian-related deaths this year. Since 2019, police have made arrests in just 11% of these crashes.