PARAMUS, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- Police are searching for the driver that fatally struck a woman walking on the side of a New Jersey road Thursday morning.
A spokeswoman for the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office said at about 6:30 a.m., a 58-year-old woman was walking along the side of the road on Forest Avenue in Paramus when she was struck by a car driving southbound.
The woman was taken to the Hackensack University Medical Center where she was later pronounced dead.
Investigators shut down traffic on Forest Avenue in Paramus as they gathered information about the hit-and-run.
Officials said the busy roadway has a sidewalk, but was partially covered by tree limbs and growing vines and would be difficult to see before sunrise.
Police described the vehicle which fled on Soldier Hill Road, as a blue hatchback with headlight damage.
A woman living across the street from the scene told ABC-TV that vehicles tend to speed coming over the slight incline and going down a hill of that section of road.The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office urges anyone with information to contact authorities.





