UPDATE (5:40 p.m.): Police report that the woman has a brain injury and is in “very critical” condition. She is 23 years old, according to CBS Philly. Police are still searching for the car that hit the woman and fled.
Earlier: Police are looking for witnesses to a hit-and-run accident that left a woman face down and unconscious in the middle of 48th Street between Pine and Osage early Sunday morning.
A neighbor who lives near the scene says that she woke early this morning, around 2:30 a.m., to people screaming outside her window and saw a woman lying in the middle of the street. The neighbor said the woman looked unresponsive and it looked like she had head trauma.
“It looked like she either had on flats or no shoes at all and only a cell phone (no purse, etc.),” the neighbor wrote by e-mail this morning.
“I heard a very loud and constantly pacing man saying that he just found her like that and almost drove over her,” she wrote. “He stayed until the last cop left the scene.”
Police tweeted that the woman was in critical condition and that they are looking for witnesses. If you saw something call 686-TIPS or write tips@phillypolice.com.
August 25th, 2013 at 2:43 pm
48th st needs some real traffic calming / pedestrian awareness at the stop signs. Is there anything in the works??
August 25th, 2013 at 6:45 pm
I live in the area. Do we know anything else about the victim?
August 25th, 2013 at 6:54 pm
Very, very sorry to hear this
August 25th, 2013 at 7:57 pm
This is a horrible story. I constantly witness drivers failing to stop at stop signs on 48th street.
August 26th, 2013 at 12:23 am
funny thing is i live at the apartment where it happened. the police were asking for cctv feeds etc. i got back home an hour before the tragedy happened…sigh
May 17th, 2021 at 10:53 pm
morgan <3 please heal one day