A female pedestrian succumbed to life-threatening injuries and died after she was struck by a car on Loudon Road on Monday. The driver, also female, was leaving the Burger King drive-through in a navy blue 2002 Cayenne S Porsche when she collided with the pedestrian at around 11:40 a.m.
The identity of the victim has not been released.
Loudon Road was blocked off with caution tape from CVS to Advanced Autoparts in the early afternoon. The victim’s black shoe still sat about five feet away from the stop sign where the collision occurred.
“It was horrible,” said Kevin Belanger, who witnessed the crash from his car behind the driver in the Burger King drive-through line. “The driver never saw the lady. That’s it. Never saw her. She was looking left to turn right, and then the lady was under the car.”
Belanger said he doesn’t know if the pedestrian was crossing the street, but that she was standing in the bike lane when she was hit.
“The woman put both hands on that hood, and then the car went up over her. It was a little hard to watch,” he said.
Burger King worker Sawyer Culberson dialed 911 with his manager after hearing Belanger scream.
“There was someone in the drive through, and he was like, ‘Oh my god!’ and I looked out the window and there was someone on the ground,” Culberson said.
Culberson said customers from inside Burger King ran out to begin CPR until first responders arrived. The woman was taken away in an ambulance at around noon.
The driver, a young woman wearing pink pants, sobbed next to the Burger King drive-through as she spoke with police.
“That could have been me,” said Belanger. “See, that’s why it freaked me out. I think because that could have been me in the next car, if I happened to be in front of her instead of her in front of me.”
Concord Police are investigating the collision.