Police working to ID woman who collapsed, died in road

Atlanta police are working to identify a woman found dead near Interstate 75/85 and Langford Parkway in southeast Atlanta.

Channel 2 Action News there as police tried to figure out how the woman got there.

Atlanta police said officers responded to a report of a person down call just before 2 a.m. Thursday.

When officers got there, they met with two drivers who said they had seen someone having trouble walking in the road and pulled over to help them.

They said the woman then collapsed.

Police said Grady EMS arrived and said she was dead.

Her injuries were consistent with being struck by a vehicle, Atlanta police Capt. Andrew Senzer said.

Police said they believe the woman is between the ages of 25 and 35 years old.

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Police on scene said they noted that there are no apartments or homes nearby, so they said they do not know why she was in the road.

“You have 75/85 that splits with Langford Parkway and that loops around, it’s a lot of twists and turns over here, very dark, but we don’t know why the pedestrian was on the roadway,” Senzer said.

If the woman was hit by a car, police will then start searching for the hit-and-run driver.

Residents we spoke with at a nearby gas station say they hope no one hit the woman intentionally. Either way, they say whoever hit her shouldn't have left her there.

"You never know but when you see a person staggering like that and they need help, I don’t know what the situation was. Hopefully no one hit her," said resident Eric Maddox.

Maddox said he always sees people at night walking around these roads parallel to the interstate, and it's dangerous.

"There’s a senior high rise right there at the end of the street, people walk all the time around here," he said.

Police are looking for information from the public as they work to figure out what happened to the victim.

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