The Chapel Hill Police Department is investigating a fatal collision that killed a pedestrian Friday night along one of the town’s busiest thoroughfares.
A release from the Town of Chapel Hill shortly after 11 p.m. said police officers responded at 7:41 p.m. to a report of a pedestrian hit by a driver in the 1800 block of Fordham Boulevard. That stretch of the highway — which runs between the intersection with Sage and Old Durham roads to the intersection with Eastowne Drive — has no sidewalks on either side.
Police said the pedestrian died at the scene of the crash. The town added in Friday’s alert that the driver of the vehicle remained at the scene as emergency responders and law enforcement arrived. As of Friday night, no other information about the incident is being made publicly available, according to police…