Wheelchair-bound woman killed by hit-and-run driver in North Phila.
A 29-year-old man from Glenolden, Delaware County, was arrested Saturday morning in the hit-and-run death in North Philadelphia of a 37-year-old homeless woman in a wheelchair, police said.
A 29-year-old man from Glenolden, Delaware County, was arrested Saturday morning in the hit-and-run death in North Philadelphia of a 37-year-old homeless woman in a wheelchair, police said.
The unidentified driver was traveling east on West Lehigh Avenue when he struck the woman in the wheelchair who was crossing Lehigh at Mascher Street about 1:40 a.m. As he sped away in a white Ford F-250 pickup truck, he hit a second pedestrian, police said.
A short time later the driver was stopped for going through a red light on East Lehigh Avenue at B Street and arrested for driving under the influence, police said.
The second hit-and-run victim identified the truck at the scene as the one that hit her and the wheel-chair-bound woman, who was taken to Temple University Hospital, where she died of her injuries at 2:11 a.m.
The second victim was also taken to Temple and treated for minor injuries.
Neither victim was identified.
Charges of homicide by vehicle and related offenses are pending further investigation, police said.
215-854-4651
@InqBrubaker