A woman was killed last night when she was struck in a hit-skip crash on Morse Road on the Northeast Side. As of late last night, the woman's name had not been released by Columbus police. Her body, covered by a sheet, still lay in one of the westbound lanes of Morse, the shopping bags she had been carrying scattered about and her purse in the gutter.

A woman was killed last night when she was struck in a hit-skip crash on Morse Road on the Northeast Side.

As of late last night, the woman�s name had not been released by Columbus police. Her body, covered by a sheet, still lay in one of the westbound lanes of Morse, the shopping bags she had been carrying scattered about and her purse in the gutter.

Police said that a passing motorist saw the body shortly after 10:15 p.m. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, which was just north of Gahanna and west of Hamilton Road near the Morse intersection with Bentridge Lane.

Kim Guice, 46, said she was driving on Morse when she saw the woman sprawled on her back in the middle of the road.

�I thought, �What�s all of that stuff in the road? Oh, my gosh, it�s a dead body!�?�

Guice said she quickly turned around, stopped her car and called 911.

The woman was killed in front of St. Luke Lutheran Church, although it�s unclear whether she had been coming from there or where she was heading. There�s no crosswalk where she was crossing Morse.



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