Boston police: Woman dragged for miles in hit-and-run

BOSTON - Police say a 48-year-old woman was dragged for approximately three miles after she and another man were hit by an SUV early Monday morning in Chinatown, CBS Boston reports.

Boston police responded around 1:40 a.m. after a man and a woman had been hit by a car, the station reports. The 56-year-old man was rushed to Tufts Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, according to EMS. But the 48-year-old woman was no longer at the scene.

State Police said they were then called minutes later to Columbia Road in Dorchester to respond to a report of a woman who had been struck.

Spokesman Dave Procopio said in a statement that it was the same woman hit in Chinatown who had been dragged there and "suffered severe traumatic injuries but was alive when transported."

Procopio said that the victim was dragged southbound on Route 93.

"I called the cops in [and I said] I don't see anybody's head, I don't see anybody's body. I don't know what's going on, it's like an animal or someone under her car and that's when the cops came over here. Its seems like she had been dragging her for over like a mile," Elizabeth Amas, a witness, told the station.

It took several minutes to get the woman out from underneath the car, Amas said. She was rushed to Boston Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

The driver, 44-year-old Xiao Ying Zhou of Sandwich, faces two counts of leaving the scene of a collision causing personal injury.

She is expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court Monday, according to Jake Wark, spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.

The victims' names have not yet been released.