It was a deadly weekend for pedestrians in the Los Angeles region, with police seeking the public's help in identifying the drivers involved in three fatal hit-and-run collisions.
In one incident, a 19-year-old woman was struck and killed in South Los Angeles early Sunday morning in what a witness described as a possible road rage incident or street race, police said.
The woman, identified by Los Angeles County coroner's officials as Djenaba Michell Ejukwa-Williams, was crossing Central Avenue at 120th Street when she was hit by a dark-colored Ford Taurus heading north, said Los Angeles police Sgt. Jeremy Duncan.
The force of the impact was “so significant” that one of her feet was severed, he said.
Ejukwa-Williams had been walking eastbound in a marked crosswalk, but she was crossing against the light, witnesses told police.
She died at the scene, Duncan said.
A witness told police that the Taurus closely trailed a silver SUV, both of which appeared to be traveling at about 70 mph. The speed limit on that road is 35 mph.
