Crime & Safety
North Andover's Angela Desmond ID'd As Pedestrian Killed Sunday: DA
Desmond was on the sidewalk when she was struck by a Honda Civic. She died at Lawrence General. As of Tuesday, no charges had been filed.
NORTH ANDOVER, MA — The pedestrian who died Sunday after being struck by a car in North Andover has been identified as 47-year-old Angela Desmond of North Andover, the Essex County District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.
Desmond was pronounced dead at Lawrence General Hospital. The district attorney's office had withheld the victim's name from its previous announcement of the incident pending the notification of the victim's next of kin.
According to authorities, at about 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Desmond was walking on a sidewalk along Massachusetts Avenue near Route 125 when she was struck by a Honda Civic.
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The driver remained at the scene, authorities said. According to the district attorney's office, the driver's identity is being withheld pending a decision to file any charges or issue citations.
The incident remains under investigation by the Massachusetts State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section and the North Andover Police Department, authorities said.
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