“Pedestrian Hit This Morning on Bladensburg Road”

via google maps

“Dear PoPville,

Around 9am this morning, my husband and I were dropping our son off at daycare when we noticed one of the owners running out onto Bladensburg Rd. It was then that we realized he was attempting to help an elderly woman who was struck in the crosswalk across Bladensburg Rd. NE at the intersection of Oates/K St. NE. Since we happened upon the scene shortly after it occurred, it was unclear how the hit occurred. There was a white SUV that pulled over and the driver was out helping, but I can’t be sure that is the car that struck the woman. Several passersby and drivers stopped their cars to shield the woman on the ground and we saw emergency response heading that way shortly after. She was conscious when we saw her.

The hit and run accident I also mentioned (in a tweet) occurred on March 21 on Oates St. NE.

My husband and I had just dropped the baby off at daycare and were heading into work. When we reached the intersection of Oates and Orren St. NE, I noticed an older man laying in the road near the storm drain next to the crosswalk with a gash on his head and struggling to sit up. I told my husband to stop the car and we looped around and got out. There were two other passersby who also stopped and called emergency services. When fire/EMS arrived we left and were driving along Oates when I noticed the man’s missing shoe in the road two blocks away. I stopped a police officer who, it turns out, was responding to a person who called in the hit. I flagged the shoe for him and told him the victim was two blocks away and fire/EMS had arrived. It appears that the man was hit and dragged or was on the hood of the car for two blocks before being thrown off. I haven’t seen anything mentioned about the incident since it happened.”