"For the second time in nine years, a car crash has killed a pedestrian at the intersection of York Street and South Frontage Road.
The latest fatal crash took place around 3 p.m. Tuesday. Police said a driver struck a 42-year-old pedestrian, Melissa Tancredi of Waterbury, at the intersection, and she died.
Tancredi was on the sidewalk, not in the street, when the driver of the car hopped the curb and struck her, according to police. Passers-by, including medical staff from Yale-New Haven Hospital a half-block away, tried unsuccessfully to hep her at the scene and keep her alive.
The driver was a 29-year-old woman from Hamden.
“Tancredi was standing fully on the sidewalk (northeast corner) at South Frontage Road and York Street when she was struck. [The driver] was operating her car in the left-most lane of South Frontage Road. Her lane is a left-turn only lane that does not continue (ahead) beyond the intersection. Despite traveling in the left turn only lane, [the driver] continued straight. He car jumped the curbstone, continued a few feet, struck the pedestrian and then a lamp post and the corner of the Air Rights Garage,” police spokesman Officer David Hartman reported in a press release."
