Woman struck and killed by pickup truck in Philadelphia hit-and-run
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A woman was struck and killed by a pickup truck early Thursday morning and the driver fled the scene, Philadelphia police said.
Now officers are looking for a gray pickup and trying to get surveillance footage that could provide a better description of the vehicle.
Police responded to the fatal hit-and-run call around 3:30 a.m. on Front Street above Hunting Park Avenue.
Fire department paramedics and police officers found a 24-year-old woman, later identified as Tahtiana Diggs, in the street with chest injuries. CPR was administered on the scene before the woman was taken to Temple University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 4:23 a.m.
Chief Inspector Scott Small said before the crash, the victim was in a vehicle with two other women driving south on Front Street.
"For some reason, the vehicle that the victim was in, the vehicle pulled over, and the 24-year-old female got out of the vehicle. And that's when a pickup truck, just described as a gray pickup truck traveling south on Front Street, struck this female," Small said.
The area where the crash occurred is between a U.S. Post Office and the Greenmount Cemetery, but Small said businesses up or down the block may have surveillance cameras that showed the truck.