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Woman Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver in Philadelphia

A police officer stands next to a police SUV parked on a street behind crime scene tape.
NBC10

A 21-year-old woman died in a hit-and-run crash Monday morning in Philadelphia.

The woman was laying on the road on the 1400 block of West Roosevelt Boulevard in the Hunting Park neighborhood when a car going westbound on the boulevard struck her and kept going, the Philadelphia Police Department said.

The crash happened around 5:40 a.m. and the woman was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital at 6:39 a.m., the PPD said.

The department said the vehicle that struck the woman was white. The investigation is ongoing.

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