Police search for van in hit and run crash

ARCADIA, Ind. (WISH) - A 17-year old Hamilton County teenager is in critical condition at Methodist Hospital after someone driving a van, hit the ATV he was riding. Now officers are looking for the person who struck Logan Puski and then drove away.

"His grandma yelled there's a big cloud of smoke, someone just hit something out front," Nicholas Eller said.

Eller ran out of the house to find his friend, 17-year old Logan Puski, hurt and on the ground.

"We ran outside and our buddy Alex was laying on top of him over the four wheeler trying to get him to come to. We eventually pulled him off the four-wheeler and laid him in the grass and called 911," Eller said.

Logan was riding westbound on the ATV and his friend Alex was following in a pick up truck along 256th street when the accident happened.

"As they started westbound another vehicle, the brown van that we are trying to find, passed the pick up truck, went around it and basically struck the ATV in the rear," Vicky Dunbar with the Hamilton County Sheriff's department said.

So now deputies are looking for a brown van. The bumper could be gray and it could be damaged.

"They believe that the front bumper of that vehicle is gray in color and we believe that the vehicle may be local to the area or someone who has connections to the area," Dunbar said.

While deputies continue the search for the driver, friends are trying to deal with what happened.

"Alex was actually pretty much like his brother, he lives with him. They've been best friends forever and he's really torn up about it," Dakota Frye said.

"It could have been us on his 4-wheeler, it could have been any of us," Eller said.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department at 773-1282.