Crime & Safety

ID Of Woman, 43, Killed After Struck By 2 Vehicles: Police

New details regarding the fatal crash involving two vehicles hitting a woman on Boston Post Road in Orange.

ORANGE, CT — A West Haven woman has died after being struck by multiple vehicles on Boston Post Road, Orange Police Department Assistant Chief Max Martins said.

On Nov. 14, around 6:22 p.m., the Orange Police Department received a report of a pedestrian, later identified as Khurshida Mohamadi, 43, of West Haven, struck by multiple vehicles on the Boston Post Road in front of McDonald’s, 57 Boston Post Road, Martins said.

Responding officers found Mohamadi in the roadway with multiple traumatic injuries, Martins said.

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The Department’s accident reconstruction team responded to conduct the investigation, Martins said.

It appears that Mohamadi was crossing the Boston Post Road from the north side to the south side when she was struck while in the area of the left westbound travel lane by an unknown dark, 4-door vehicle that fled the scene, Martins said.

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Mohamadi was then struck by a 2009 Honda Pilot that did stop, and the operator is cooperating, Martins said.

Both vehicles had been traveling westbound on the Boston Post Road, Martins said.

Mohamadi was transported by AMR Ambulance to Yale New Haven Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, Martins said.

The Orange Police Department is looking for the public's help in locating additional witnesses to the collision and locating the unknown evading vehicle, which should have some damage to the left front of the vehicle, Martins said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact either Detective Peterson or Detective Bailey at 203-891-2138, RF Case #23-35149.

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