The upper torso of a pedestrian whose body was halved by the force of a hit-and-run crash fell through the suspect's windshield, according to Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim.

Authorities say Jose Antonio Santiago was driving a Saab sedan north as Anna Lewis, a 62-year-old Allentown woman, walked south on the Airport Road shoulder shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday in Hanover Township. He allegedly hit Lewis with such force that her body was severed at the waist.

The sedan sustained extensive front-end damage in the crash, included a busted passenger-side windshield. That's how the victim's upper torso entered the vehicle and ended up on the floor of Santiago's passenger seat, Grim said Wednesday.

Santiago continued north on Airport Road and then turned right onto Catasauqua Road. Lewis' upper torso was still on the passenger-side floor when Pennsylvania State Police found his car parked on Cloverdale Road in Bethlehem about an hour-and-a-half after the deadly wreck.

The rest of Lewis' body remained at the crash site, where she was pronounced dead at 9:36 p.m. Sunday. The coroner determined her accidental death was caused by multiple blunt force injuries.

Police are still investigating the crash.

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Santiago, 33, of Allentown, has been charged in connection with the hit-and-run, which also hurt Lewis' sister, Rosalie Carlo, of Brooklyn, New York. Carlo, 51, remains hospitalized, but is expected to recover.

Carlo said she and her sister were walking on Airport Road's east shoulder between Catasauqua and Airport Center roads after dining at a nearby Red Robin.

At the time of his Monday morning arrest, the suspected hit-and-run driver denied striking Lewis or Carlo. Santiago, 33, of Allentown, told police, "I didn't hit anyone. I would've stopped. I'm not a bad person," court records say.

Police spotted reddish "body matter' on his right pant leg and noted that he smelled strongly of alcohol. Santiago, of the 800 block of West Chew Street, told officers he had a few drinks at Stooges Bar in Allentown before driving a friend home, records say.

Santiago is charged with a felony count of accidents involving death or personal injury, a misdemeanor count of the same offense and a summary count of driving on roadways laned for traffic. He is being held in county jail in lieu of $275,000.

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