close up of a constabulary car, it sounds "Emergency 911."An Anchorage Police Department vehicle, photographed successful Downtown Anchorage connected Thursday, August 10, 2023. (Dev Hardikar/Alaska Public Media)

A female is successful captious information aft being struck by a pickup motortruck successful Anchorage Tuesday afternoon. 

Anchorage constabulary opportunity nan female was crossing Benson Boulevard adjacent Dawson Street astir 3:45 p.m. erstwhile she was struck by a motortruck heading eastbound. She was brought to a infirmary pinch what officials described arsenic “life-threatening injuries.”

Police opportunity nan driver of nan conveyance remained connected nan segment and nary charges person been filed. 

The collision occurs successful a twelvemonth erstwhile 13 pedestrians person been killed by vehicles successful Anchorage, including six deaths successful September. This period has had nan highest number of fatal pedestrian-vehicle collisions successful complete a decade, according to metropolis postulation data. 

In response, nan Anchorage Assembly unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday nighttime calling connected authorities and metropolis leaders to instal much lights, arsenic portion of nan national Highway Safety Improvement Program. They besides inquire that velocity limits beryllium reduced successful definite areas and that nationalist information officials summation enforcement of postulation violations. 

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