Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle that fatally struck a woman and her young daughter in north-end Toronto Wednesday evening.
Toronto police and paramedics said they were called to Warden Avenue and Continental Place, north of Ellesmere Road, before 9:30 p.m.
Police said a family of four had just left a restaurant at a plaza nearby when they decided to cross four lanes of traffic at an unmarked intersection.
A father and a two-year-old managed to make it across safely but the 33-year-old mother and five-year-old daughter were struck by a northbound vehicle.
Both victims ended up in the southbound lane where the mother was struck a second time by another vehicle.
Officers said the northbound vehicle stayed at the scene but the other vehicle drove away.
Police said both mother and daughter were transported to hospital where they succumbed to their injuries.
“Mid-block crossing are number two on our most common types of collision we see that result in fatalities of pedestrians,” Traffic Services Const. Clint Stibbe said.
“We’re asking, where at all possible, to use marked crossover or signalized intersection.”
Authorities said they are looking for the southbound vehicle described as a dark-coloured, 2006-2011 model Honda Civic, that was last seen travelling south on Warden Avenue.
Police sad the Honda suffered damage to the fender on the front passenger side wheel area and a piece was dislodged at the scene of the crash.
Officers had closed Warden Avenue between Ellesmere Road and Lupin Drive for the investigation. The area has since been reopened to traffic.
Anyone with information or witnesses who observed events prior to or after the collision is asked to contact police at 416-808-1900 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).