ATLANTA — Atlanta police are seeking a woman who they say struck and killed a pedestrian shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday.
“The driver attempted to avoid striking the pedestrian and swerved to the left hitting another vehicle, but still struck and killed the pedestrian,” Kim Jones, a spokeswoman with Atlanta police, said in an emailed statement.
Witnesses told police a man stumbled backward into the roadway at 1575 Moreland Ave. as the woman, driving a Ford Explorer, headed south in the right lane. The driver is described as a 20- to 30-year-old woman with dreadlocks. She has a medium to dark complexion, police said.
She did get out of her late-’90s model Explorer after the accident, but said she needed to get her kids home and would return. She did not return to the scene of the accident.
The pedestrian, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.