Hit-and-run Driver Kills 50-year-old Woman

by Inna Patricia Lameyra


A speeding vehicle killed an old woman after she was sideswiped before dawn, Tuesday in Quezon City.

Special Police Officer 1 Edgardo Talacay of the Quezon City Police District’s Traffic Sector identified the elderly as Josefina Perez, 50, a resident of Barangay Old Balara, through a card found in her wallet.

The victim was said to be walking in the area at around 3 a.m. when the vehicle hit and haled her body across for several meters.

The police was not able to identify the vehicle due to its speed after it hit the woman.

The fatality was then found at the corner of Tandang Sora and Commonwealth Avenue, near an outpost of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).

Some bystanders rushed the body to East Avenue Medical Center, but it was declared dead on arrival.