A car struck and killed a bicyclist near the University of San Francisco on Friday night, and the driver drove away before being caught, police said.

The driver and bicyclist were both traveling south on Masonic Avenue near Turk Boulevard when the car hit the bicyclist, said Officer Samson Chan, a police spokesman. The driver, in a 1989 Mercedes-Benz, left the scene and parked two blocks away near Turk and Tamalpais Terrace.

The driver was arrested there on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter. The victim was 21, but Chan would provide no other information on either person, and said he had no other information about the incident.