Woman in critical condition after being hit by vehicle in Pitcairn, police searching for suspect
A woman is in critical condition after a hit-and-run in Pitcairn on Thursday night.
According to the Allegheny County Police Department, their homicide unit was requested to assist with a pedestrian crash just after 9 p.m.
County dispatch was alerted to a vehicle hitting a pedestrian in the 400 block of Broadway Boulevard. Once first responders arrived on the scene, they found a woman in the street, and the driver fled the area.
The woman was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
For Allyson Calloway, the crash hit close to home. It happened months after a car struck and killed her little cousin back in December.
"I just felt like if that was my grandmother, if that was my mother, or if that was my little cousin, I would have wanted someone to render aid," Calloway said.
She said she was parking her car on Broadway Boulevard by Third when she saw a car speed down the road and hit a woman.
"I seen a human being flipping in the air," Calloway said. "Everything sounded like breaking glass."
Within seconds, she said she opened her front door to try to block the driver from escaping and told them to stop, only to get cursed at.
"They went around my car door into the wrong lane to still get away," Calloway said.
She ran to help the woman on the ground, who she realized was her next door neighbor.
"I just grabbed her hand, and I sat down on the ground with her," Calloway said.
First responders showed up moments later.
"Me and somebody from the fire department, we held her neck still," Calloway said.
Calloway's goal was to keep the woman calm before EMS crews transported her to the hospital.
"We didn't want her to wake up and be scared," Calloway said.
It's an emotion she said she'd never seen the woman express, knowing her neighbor by the smile always on her face, now hoping she pulls through.
"I pray I get to see the smile again, and I pray that even when she makes it out of this, that this situation does not dim that smile she had," Calloway said.
Calloway believes the driver was a man and said he was in a silver sedan. She also said the car only has one side mirror. She's anxiously waiting for detectives to catch him.
"Accidents happen. The problem is when you take the humanity out of it, and you didn't stop, and you didn't render aid," Calloway said.
The incident remains under investigation. If you have any information about it, you're asked to call the County Police Tip Line 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.
