Pedestrian was dragged beneath vehicle for more than 2 miles after being hit, cops say

A woman was struck by a vehicle on a Newark street and dragged more than two miles into a supermarket parking lot, where she was found dead beneath the vehicle Friday, authorities said.

Newark police were called to the Extra Supermarket on the 300 block of Lyons Street just before 7 p.m. and found the pedestrian under the vehicle, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said.

The driver told investigators she was driving south on Sherman Avenue when she hit what she thought was a black garbage bag…

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