Christina Larsen was walking her dog across St. Charles Avenue Saturday night when she was struck and killed by a driver who fled the scene. It happened about 7 p.m. near Harmony Street.
As the 31-year-old lies in the Uptown street, several drivers traveling down St. Charles Avenue were seen driving around her body and not stopping to call for help.
"I watched every car in front of me swerve and keep going," Nichole Vogel told WWLTV’s Erica Ferrando. "My concern was to put the blinkers on and stop and keep traffic from getting any closer to her than it did that's what anybody would do I would think, but I was furious at the people who went around her.”
"You can see people passing by, stopping like to see what's going on and then pulls off. There's something wrong with that picture," said Mavis Woods who witnessed the scene.
The New Orleans Police Department says its investigation is ongoing. Police say shortly after the crash the hit-and-run driver abandoned the car and fled the scene on foot.
Anyone with information that can aid in this investigation is asked to call NOPD Traffic Fatality Investigator Danny Ellis at 504-658-6205 or to call anonymously to Crimestoppers of Greater New Orleans at 504-822-1111.