UPDATE: LeahUko spoke with the daughter of the 78-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in a stolen vehicle as well as a man who heard the crash:
The woman, identified by family members as 78-year-old Julia Abraham, was sitting inside her silver Mercury Mariner along the 3700 block of Fairmount Avenue at 12:31 p.m. when her vehicle was struck on the driver’s side by a stolen white Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Police said the driver of the stolen Cherokee had already struck five other parked vehicles before crashing into the Mercury Mariner. Get Philly local news, weather forecasts, sports and entertainment stories to your inbox. “Looking into my sideview mirror, I could see in one mirror, a vehicle getting hit so fast and so hard with a door sliding out open and in another rearview mirror I saw a white jeep just flying,” James said.Abraham was taken to Presbyterian Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 1:46 p.m.
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