Toronto police have released security video they believe shows a driver speeding away from a hit-and-run crash that killed a 34-year-old woman crossing Sheppard Ave. E. a week ago.

According to a Friday news release, Celeste Jones, 34, was standing in the Scarborough road’s centre turn lane somewhere between Abbotsfield Gate and Palmdale Dr. shortly after 10:20 p.m. on Aug. 30 when she was hit by a driver travelling eastbound in the turn lane at high speed.

Police say they believe Jones was hit while waiting for a break in westbound traffic, crossing Sheppard from the south side to the north side.

The driver did not stay at the scene and the suspect vehicle was last seen turning southbound onto Warden Ave., police say.

According to police, the video shows the vehicle, described as a small black or dark blue car with a loud and possibly modified muffler, moments after striking Jones.

In the short, five-second video, which appears to have been taken from a laneway behind a nearby plaza, the driver can be seen speeding eastbound toward Warden in the centre turn lane. The car can be seen passing several others vehicles the road at high speed.

On Friday, August 30, 2019, at approximately 10:23 p.m., police received reports of a collision in the area of Sheppard Avenue East between Abbotsfield Gate and Palmdale Drive.

According to Jones’ family, she was hit while trying to reach her bus stop on the north side of Sheppard at Abbotsfield Gate, about 250 metres from the nearest crosswalk at Pharmacy Ave.

Sheppard, a major arterial road, has four lanes and a centre turn lane at the spot she was hit. Her TTC stop is on a stretch of more than 800 metres between crosswalks.

“You have to play Frogger to cross,” Jones’ bother, Clayton Jones Jr., told the Star earlier this week, referring to the vintage video game where players guide frogs across a hazardous road.

Where Celeste Jones was killed

Jones’ family spent several days at the stop, waiting for the driver to come forward.

While it’s often referred to as “jaywalking,” city bylaws say pedestrians can legally cross midblock when there is no crossing in the immediate area and they yield to oncoming traffic. No matter what the pedestrian does, drivers are obligated to take “all due care to avoid a collision.”

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According to police data, 138 pedestrians were killed in midblock collisions between 2007 and 2018, most on arterial roads, including six fatalities on Sheppard Ave.

Earlier this week, Jones’ father told the Star he is frustrated by how drivers speed down Sheppard, and at the city for not providing a safe place to cross.

“We need to put something out to change the mindset of drivers,” he said. “I see people stop for squirrels but somebody didn’t stop for a person?”

Police say there were several other motorists nearby at the time Jones was hit. They are asking those people to come forward and are appealing to body shops and vehicle repair shops for assistance.

With files from David Rider and Ben Spurr