Woman killed in hit-and-run near Cross Bronx Expressway
NEW YORK -- Police are looking for information in a deadly hit-and-run in the Bronx.
It happened just after 10 p.m. Friday in West Farms.
Neighbors told CBS2's Lisa Rozner the victim moved to the neighborhood a few months ago.
Surveillance video from just after 10:15 p.m. Friday shows a woman trying to cross West Farms Road near the intersection of East Tremont Avenue, not in the crosswalk. She appears to be waiting for a gap in the cars when all of a sudden, one vehicle coming from the opposite direction seems to drive toward her at full speed.
"Almost like every week, something like this happen around here. It's really dangerous. I feel like police should be more in the community, around this community," one neighbor said.
Police describe the vehicle that fled as a white van and say the driver didn't remain on the scene. From the footage, it appears after the impact, the victim's body may have hit another vehicle, which stayed on the scene. Police ultimately found the victim unconscious in the roadway.
Marshall Adams is one of the people that heard the commotion and ran over.
He said witnesses told him, "She got hit by one vehicle and landed on another vehicle."
Police are still notifying the victim's family and not releasing her name, but neighbors say she was well-liked in the neighborhood.
"It's kind of crazy because, you know, she was a good individual, good-hearted individual, you know, and she didn't deserve that," neighbor Andrew James said.
"She was cool. She'd talk to people and stuff like that. She would try to help somebody in reference to if they were having a problem or something," Adams said.
Residents say the intersection is notoriously dangerous for pedestrians and cars.
"I use caution when I cross over there because I seen the cars flying through there a lot of times, you know, running through the light," Adams said.
It's not clear if the vehicle police are looking for ran a red light.
The NYPD is investigating. No arrests have been made.
