A woman who was struck by an SUV while she was crossing Northern Lights Boulevard near Minnesota Drive died Saturday night, police said.
Patrol officers responded to reports of a collision involving a vehicle and a pedestrian around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, the Anchorage Police Department said in an online report. Initial information indicated that the woman was crossing the westbound lanes of West Northern Lights, and was about 500 feet west of the crosswalk at the Minnesota Drive intersection, when a Kia SUV heading west struck her, police said.
Medics with the Anchorage Fire Department pronounced her dead at the scene, police said.
“The driver of the Kia stayed at the scene and is cooperating with police,” APD said. “No citations or charges have been filed; the investigation is ongoing.”
Police said the westbound lanes of Northern Lights west of Minnesota were closed while the Major Collision Investigations Unit processed the scene, and reopened to traffic by 1:20 a.m. Sunday.
This marks the 12th pedestrian death in Anchorage so far this year, and the second death in two days. On Friday night, a man who was crossing the Seward Highway near East 36th Avenue in Midtown was fatally struck by two vehicles. Neither of the pedestrians who died over the weekend had been publicly identified by police as of midday Sunday.