Woman Killed On Route 17 In Wood-Ridge Sought Phone, Source Says

WOOD-RIDGE, N.J. (UPDATE) -- A 49-year-old woman struck and killed Friday night on Route 17 in Wood-Ridge spoke with the driver barely 20 minutes earlier, authorities told Daily Voice.

The woman apparently was walking along the median when she was struck.
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Jerry DeMarco

10/09/2016 1:53 p.m.

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A 40-something woman struck and killed on Route 17 in Wood-Ridge near the Hasbrouck Heights border late Friday had been asking people if she could use their phone moments earlier, a law enforcement official told Daily Voice.

The woman "was at the White Castle asking people to borrow a phone," the source said. "No one gave her one, so she left....Right after that, she was struck."

The woman was apparently walking south along the highway median when a vehicle hit her just before midnight, he said.

Wood-Ridge police joined their Hasbrouck Heights colleagues, who responded initially. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Fatal Accident Investigation Unit investigated. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence.

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