EDMONTON – A woman has died after being hit by a truck while crossing a street in north Edmonton Thursday evening.
Just before 7 pm, police were called to the intersection of 123 Street and 132 Avenue, where a white blanket now covers the woman’s body, and a white pickup truck, believed to be the vehicle that struck the woman, is parked behind police barricades.
The woman was not in a marked crosswalk when she was struck.
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“Investigations, so far, reveal that the pedestrian did run out into the path of an eastbound moving vehicle,” says Insp. Terry Innes with the EPS.
Sidney Pearce, 13, was on her way home when she saw a woman and man standing in the parking lot of the Whistle Stop pub.
She asked the woman why she was crying.
“My cousin just got hit,” the woman replied.
The accident marks this year’s eighth pedestrian fatality.
This is the
21 traffic fatality of the year and the eighth pedestrian fatality of the year.
There were seven pedestrian fatalities in 2010.
With files from Mariam Ibrahim, Edmonton Journal
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