From Sandy Louey:
A 50-year-old pedestrian died after being hit by a vehicle in midtown Sacramento Wednesday night, police said today.
The accident occurred at 8:18 p.m. at the intersection of 21st and O streets. The driver of a vehicle traveling north on 21st Street saw a shopping cart in the middle of the street, but not a person, said Sgt. Norm Leong, a spokesman with the Sacramento Police Department.
The driver hit the man, Leong said. The pedestrian died Wednesday night at UC Davis Medical Center, he said.
The driver was not injured.
The accident is still under investigation. It is unclear if the man was in the crosswalk or not, Leong said.
Liv Moe of Sacramento was standing about half a block away at Zelda's Original Gourmet Pizza when the accident occurred.
"It sounded like a fender bender, like one car rear ended another," she said.
It wasn't until a family member went to get her car that Moe found out that a man had been hit. The man was lying in the street and his shoes were in the crosswalk, she said.
The Sacramento County Coroner's Office has not released the man's identity pending notification of next of kin.
Anyone who saw the accident or has information about it is asked to call the police at (916) 264-5471 and ask for the traffic investigations unit.
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