Update: The Anchorage Police Department has identified the passenger killed in the collision as 39-year-old Gina Amik.
Original story:
A collision Saturday afternoon on a busy street in Anchorage’s Fairview neighborhood killed a passenger and sent both drivers to the hospital with injuries, police said.
Patrol officers and Anchorage Fire Department medics responded around 4 p.m. Saturday to a report of a crash with injuries at Ninth Avenue and Ingra Street, the Anchorage Police Department said in an online report.
“The preliminary investigation indicates that a Toyota Tacoma was traveling northbound on Ingra when it ran a red light at 9th Avenue and collided with a Chevrolet Tahoe that was traveling eastbound on 9th Avenue,” police said.
A woman who was a passenger in the Chevy died at the scene of the crash, police said, and her identity will released after next of kin have been notified. The two men driving the vehicles were taken to the hospital with injuries that police described as not life-threatening.
Police said that the crash’s circumstances remain under investigation, and asked anyone who witnessed the crash or how the vehicles were being driven leading up to the collision to call Investigator Johnson at 907-786-8672. It wasn’t immediately clear whether any citations had been issued.
The crash closed some lanes of traffic Saturday evening as investigators processed the scene.