A woman was struck and killed by a driver Friday morning in West Ridge on the North Side.
The 64-year-old was crossing a street southbound on Maplewood Avenue when she was hit by the driver about 6 a.m. near the 2500 block of West Devon Avenue, Chicago police said.
The driver, a 40-year-old man, stayed at the scene and the woman was taken to St. Francis Hospital, where she died, police said. She was identified as Prisca Reynoso-Benitez by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The incident is under investigation.
