EDITORS NOTE: This story has been updated to reflect the correct gender of the victim. Knoxville Police reported the victim was male, however it is a female.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – A woman has died after she was struck by a vehicle along Kingston Pike Thursday night, according to the Knoxville Police Department.
A KPD spokesperson said Friday that on Thursday, July 28 around 7:30 p.m. officers responded to the scene on Kingston Pike at Mohican Street where a woman had been hit by a car. The driver remained at the scene. Multiple witnesses told officers the woman who was hit had been crossing the street outside of a crosswalk.
The woman was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with serious injuries that were believed to be non-life threatening at the time. Officers were later notified by UT Medical Center staff that the woman had died just after 10 p.m.
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The woman’s identity has not yet been released. The crash remains under investigation by KPD’s Crash Reconstruction investigators.
