PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A man is dead after a hit-and-run in North Philadelphia early Saturday morning.
Police say it happened at 1 a.m. on Girard Avenue, just one block off Broad Street. There, a black SUV was traveling eastbound when it made a U-turn into the westbound lane and hit a 60-year-old man standing in the middle of the street.
Authorities say the driver of the SUV then fled westbound without stopping.
The man, identified as Kevin Williams, was taken to the hospital, where he died just about 40 minutes later.