A 39-year-old man died in hospital, Friday after being hit by a Jeep on Tucson’s north side, Thursday.
According to a news release from Tucson Police Department, Silas Jordan Polin was in the median on Oracle Road, north of Fort Lowell, at just after 9 p.m. At one point, he began walking eastbound into the northbound lanes of traffic, against the red.
Polin was struck by the Jeep Compass heading northbound. The 17-year-old driver of the Compass stopped immediately and cooperated with the investigation. TPD determined the driver was not impaired at the time of the collision…