50-year-old woman killed in hit-and-run

An elderly woman was killed before dawn Tuesday after she was sideswiped by a speeding vehicle on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City.

Josefina Perez, 50, a resident of Barangay Old Balara, was identified through a card she carried in her purse.

Police were unable to identify the vehicle which hit the woman as the driver did not stop. Perez’s body was found near an outpost of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority at the corner of Tandang Sora and Commonwealth Avenues.

Traffic investigator SPO1 Edgardo Talacay of the Quezon City Police District’s Traffic Sector 5 said the victim was walking in the area at 3 a.m. Tuesday when a vehicle hit her and dragged her body for several meters.

Talacay said some bystanders rushed Perez to East Avenue Medical Center but she did not make it. Julie M. Aurelio