Police in Oakland will hopefully be able to track down a vehicle that allegedly committed a hit-and-run Saturday night in East Oakland that left one woman dead.
The crash occurred near the Eastmont Town Center around 11:45 pm Saturday, as KRON4 reports, on the 2500 block of 73rd Avenue. The suspect vehicle was apparently heading northbound on 73rd Avenue when the vehicle struck a woman at the intersection of 73rd and Garfield Avenue, leaving her lying in the roadway and fleeing the scene.
First responders reportedly performed life-saving aid, but the woman was pronounced dead on the scene.
As KTVU reports, witnesses say that the victim was a woman in her 40s. The witnesses added that vehicles frequently drove at unsafe speeds in the area but the police, despite having a substation right there, rarely pulled anyone over for speeding.
"Put some more speed bumps around here, have a little more surveillance here, because that should not be happening," said one local resident, speaking to KTVU.
There were several security cameras in the area, including, presumably, at the police station, but no suspect vehicle has been identified, at least publicly.
The Oakland Police Eastmont Substation is located at 2651 73rd Avenue, in Eastmont Town Center. This is also the location of the Oakland Police Traffic Division headquarters.
The victim's name has not been released pending next-of-kin notification.
Three months ago, East Oakland saw another deadly crash late on a Saturday night, when an allegedly speeding juvenile driver crashed into a group of pedestrians at 85th Avenue and International Boulevard, killing three of them.
