PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A woman who died after being struck by a vehicle in Portsmouth on Wednesday morning worked at Churchland High School, Portsmouth Public Schools confirmed.

Portsmouth police responded to the 4300 block of Cedar Lane around 6 a.m. for a reported crash involving a pedestrian. The pedestrian, identified as 61-year-old Katuria Grant, was taken to the hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries.

A spokesperson for Portsmouth Public Schools said Grant was employed as a Food Services Worker at Churchland High School, not far from where the accident happened.

It was one of two accidents involving pedestrians on Wednesday in Hampton Roads. A few hours after the accident in Portsmouth, another pedestrian in Norfolk was critically injured after being hit by a city-owned vehicle

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