Police have not yet apprehended the driver involved in a fatal North Philadelphia hit-and-run crash that happened early Monday, but they have located the car, officials said.
At around 12:45 a.m. Monday, a 60-year-old man was struck while walking across Broad Street at Lehigh Avenue, according to authorities. The PPD said the pedestrian was crossing against a red light, and that the driver was going northbound “at a high rate of speed.”
Medics took the man to Temple University Hospital, where he died of his injuries just before 1:15 a.m., investigators said. Police have not publicly identified him.
Detectives found a black Chevrolet Equinox believed to have been involved in the crash at 3 p.m. Monday on the 2000 block of Beech Street, which is near Penn Treaty Park in Fishtown, according to authorities.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the PPD’s Crash Investigation Division at 215-685-3181 or call or text the police tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477).
From 2019 to 2023, State Route 611, which runs along Broad Street, experienced 183 speeding-related collisions and 430 pedestrian crashes, according to PennDOT data used in an April city report about expansion of the speed camera program.
Though Mayor Cherelle Parker signed legislation a year ago authorizing automated speed enforcement on Broad Street, the cameras are not yet up and running.
