Daughter pleads for details in crash that killed her father
POMPANO BEACH She hasn’t slept well since her father was struck and killed two weeks ago, and now Megan Zukowski has made a tearful public appeal for help in finding the driver who hit him and then fled the scene.
“I understand the first person that hit him must have been scared themselves and that’s my guess why they ran, but it’s not right to [not] come forth and say something,” she said at the Broward Sheriff’s Office on Thursday morning.
Henry Zukowski, 61, left his Pompano Beach home to buy some cigarettes about 5:35 a.m. Sept. 25 and crossed the 1100 block of Copans Road, his daughter said.
Investigators believe he was hit by a metallic gray, 2014 or 2015-model, 4-door Honda Civic that swerved but lost its passenger-side mirror on impact. Debris was recovered at the scene.
The mirror was unique in that it had a traffic sensing camera, said Broward Sheriff’s Detective Sean Williams.
“The camera on the mirror reduced the number of cars we were looking at from about 10,000 to about 1,200, but that’s still a lot of cars,” he said.
A Toyota Camry was the second car to hit Henry Zukowski, but driver Jeffrey Heh, 69, of Pembroke Pines, stayed at the scene and cooperated with the investigation. He was unable to stop in time and struck the man as he lay in said.
“My family can’t start to move on without knowing what happened the roadway, investigators and why, and why no one’s come forth yet,” Megan Zukowski said, choking back her emotions. “It’s not right.”
She is asking anyone who has seen a metallic gray Honda Civic with passenger-side damage and a missing mirror to contact investigators.
“My father didn’t deserve to die like that,” she said. “Any information at all can help us to mend our hearts and move on, if it’s possible.”
The sheriff’s office asks anyone with information about this case to contact Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-8477 or online at browardcrimestoppers.org.