Police in Brooklyn are searching for the hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a woman while she crossed a street on Saturday night.
According to law enforcement sources, 75-year-old Judith Byron of Sunset Park was walking through the intersection of 7th Avenue and 41st Street in the neighborhood shortly after 9:35 p.m. on Oct. 4 when she was fatally hit.
Police said she was walking in the north crosswalk in favor of the pedestrian walk signal when an unknown driver inside a possiblly silver SUV, heading northbound on the street, blew a steady red light before striking Byron.
Authorities said the driver did not remain at the scene after the collision.
Officers from the 72nd Precinct responded to a 911 call about the horrific crash and found Byron with severe trauma throughout her bo