The Akron Police Department is investigating a hit-skip crash that left a 43-year-old woman dead early Saturday morning.
According to Lt. Brent Bauknecht, the crash occurred just after midnight near West South Street and the Ohio and Erie Canal Way Path crosswalk at Lakeshore Boulevard.
The woman was walking in the area when she was struck by what appears to have been a silver Chevrolet Malibu, Bauknecht said. The car fled the scene after striking the woman. She was pronounced dead shortly after officers arrived. Her name has not been released…