Family of the 80-year-old woman struck and killed by a hit and run van driver Sunday on E Madison has posted flyers at the intersection asking for help.
The posters seeking witnesses to the collision ask anyone with information to contact Seattle Police. Earlier Monday, police released an update announcing the woman had died from her injuries but did not have new information about the investigation or any arrests.
The King County Medical Examiner’s office said the woman would be publicly identified later today. UPDATE: Investigators say Bari Barbara Hill, 80, died Sunday night of multiple blunt force injuries. According to public records, she was a resident of Madison Park where she had a 43rd Ave E apartment.
CHS reported here on Sunday’s just before 5 PM incident. Witnesses reported the woman was struck while crossing E Madison at 22nd Ave in the crosswalk either riding or pushing a bike when she was hit. Police say the driver was turning left onto Madison from 22nd Ave in front of the Safeway when the woman was struck.
The area is currently busy with construction from the Madison RapidRide G project which will include a 22nd and Madison stop when it opens in 2024.
Witnesses reported the vehicle described as a black work van sped from the intersection westbound on E Madison. Seattle Police was also attempting to access security video and street cameras that may have captured images of the suspect vehicle.
UPDATE: Images of the vehicle from the video retrieved by police show a black van with distinctive back windows:
If you’ve seen this vehicle or have information to help the investigation, call 911.
Off-duty registered nurses who happened to be at the scene began CPR on the downed woman who was reported breathing but in critical condition by Seattle Fire as she was transported to Harborview. Monday, SPD said the woman had later died of her injuries.
The death comes amid growing pressure on the Seattle Department of Transportation and new director Greg Spotts to address increasingly dangerous streets and soaring numbers of pedestrian injuries and deaths as the city approaches the 2030 deadline for the Vision Zero program.
The site of the deadly collision, meanwhile, will be overhauled with street safety upgrades including better crossings and curbs as part of the Madison bus rapid transit changes and safe streets funding from the convention center expansion’s public benefits package.
Our hearts break for this 80 year old woman who died just trying to cross the street.
Everyone should be able to grow old in their community, and stay active getting around to the people and places they love. We need safe streets for our elders. #VisionZero https://t.co/u4l4aJzeXN pic.twitter.com/R191e6rrdX
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Then city doesn’t care…Bruce only cares about getting homeless outside of Seattle not helping citizens dying in our streets.
Not true. Stopping graffiti is also more important to him.
That is a very unfair and inaccurate assessment. Bruce Harrell is doing a great job as our mayor.
Stopping this sort of thing would require exactly what you all don’t like or want – actual enforcement of our traffic regulations…
How does a cop showing up way later stop hit and runs?
Actually, it is the virtual stopping of giving moving violations that has greatly contributed to the dangerous driving in Seattle. I assume this is what Nandor is referring to.
Apparently the wisdom at the time of that decision was that people given the tickets were primarily POC, so it was deduced that traffic violations were inherently racist.
Do with that info what you will.
Traffic violations always affected people of color disproportionally. I mean the data is light as day. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/report-black-people-and-native-americans-get-stopped-by-seattle-police-at-a-far-higher-rate-than-white-people/
Unless you can prove that these stops are not warranted and that white drivers are getting a pass on the same behaviors, it might be the case that those disproportionately impacted are disproportionately engaging in behaviors that warrant stops.
Drivers in this city feel totally entitled to do whatever they want to these days.. they become completely accustomed to running stop signs, speeding, not yielding to/ driving aggressively around pedestrians… They are quite aware that there are no consequences. It’s no wonder at all that pedestrian and cyclist deaths have been rising, despite all of the empty gestures that the city has recently made towards “vision zero”
Exactly right Nandor. Police presence on our streets causes drivers to slow down, stop for signs and traffic lights, crosswalks and helps keep their noses out of their phones because there are fines for all of those. Right now it’s a free for all on our streets which makes travelling on them by any means unsafe
Law enforcement doesn’t keep red states out of top 5 in hit-and-run or DUI fatality rates.
Yeah this would be solved quicker if Sawant was mayor. Get a grip.
Did not have any information, did not have any arrests…. Common theme for SPD these days. Smh
It was a random occurrence, a cop would have to be right there at the moment of impact – your cop hate fetish doesn’t apply here.
You should let the cop lovers above know funding for a few more of them on the streets won’t stop a random occurrence.
Just tragic, heartbreaking, and outrageous. Our hearts break for her and her loved ones. We are so sorry for your loss.
If her family wants, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways offers Memorial Walks and Rides for people who have been killed while traveling on our streets like this recent one for Robb Mason. These memorials bring community support, and attention from the media and city officials to these tragedies that can otherwise go overlooked. If you are interested in learning more, please contact us at info @ seattlegreenways.org
My heart breaks for the family of this woman. I hope you get the answers you deserve. My deepest condolences.
I don’t remember the van being black, I was standing outside when this happened, I work right next to where this happened. I’m sorry for the family’s loss.
You should share anything you may have seen with the police immediately, even if you don’t think it’s anything.
Do you remember what color it was? I saw a dark purple van that looked exactly like this today by Roanoke park
I bike…. most drivers are cool, but there are a ton of psychopaths. They know there are no cops to pull them over. The city has become extremely dangerous under the leftward political shift the last fifteen years.
I don’t think this 80 year old lady was the one with the bike. I think a cyclist threw his bike down when running to her aid, or at least that’s what someone who was on the scene told me.