A 60-year-old-woman has died following an early morning crash in the city’s south side.
Thunder Bay Police Service officers say the woman and her husband were driving down Victoria Avenue Sunday around 6:30 a.m. when a stolen black 2004 Chevy Colorado pickup truck drove through the stop sign on Leland Avenue and struck the passenger’s side of the vehicle.
The driver of the truck fled on foot.
Paramedics took the woman to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre where she later died because of her injuries. Police will release the name of the woman after notifying the family.
Police closed parts of Victoria Avenue for a few hours in order to identify the suspect or suspects. Det. Const. Gordon Snyder said they are urging the driver of the truck to come forward and deal with what has happen. He said they are going over the truck to find any DNA to identify the driver.
“This is one of the most disgraceful things someone can do is be involved in a serious collision and be the cause of a serious collision and then flee the scene as somebody is taking their last breathes of life,” Snyder said. “We’re asking that person to show some courage and come forward to the police station and turn themselves in.”
Snyder added they are also asking any witness to come forward as well.
