PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after a woman was struck by a car while entering I-95 on foot early Monday morning. A police investigation shut down a section of the expressway in the city's northeast for much of the morning.
It was around 3 a.m. when troopers were dispatched to mile marker 32 of I-95 northbound, near Academy Road, in Philadelphia, after receiving reports that a pedestrian had been struck, according to Trooper Paul Holdefer with the state police.
When troopers arrived on scene, police say, they found a woman with significant, life-threatening injuries, lying in the right northbound lane of I-95.
First responders found the driver involved in the crash, with her car, about 300 yards ahead of the victim.Tim Jimenez/KYW Newsradio
About 300 yards ahead, on the left shoulder of the northbound lanes, police found the driver of the car that hit the woman. The driver told troopers that she was traveling north on I-95 in the left lane when a woman emerged from the grassy median to the left and walked out onto the expressway in front of her. The driver said she was unable to avoid hitting the woman with the front passenger side of her car.
The force of impact threw the victim from the left lane to the right lane, where first responders found her before she was transported to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital. Neither the driver nor the victim has been identified. The victim had no identification on her person, and police so far have been unable to identify her.
