Woman hit and killed by car was 'sitting in the road' before accident, locals say

Witnesses say an elderly woman who was hit and killed by a ute in Adelaide had been sitting in the path of traffic in the moments before the impact.

Police are investigating whether the driver simply didn’t see the victim, who only minutes earlier had been drinking with friends at a nearby home.

Jennifer, 71, had been visiting her friend Chris.

They’d been drinking and listening to music so she chose to walk home but never made it.

She was hit by a Mitsubishi Ute on Port Road in Queenstown in the city’s north-west just after 9.30pm last night.

“I didn’t believe it you know, she was here, she just left here to go home,” Chris said.

“She’s a good person, good heart, good soul. She’d bring a smile to your face.”

One witness told neighbours that in the seconds before the incident, Jennifer was on the road.

“He said she was sitting on the road, and he tried to stop the car by flagging it down but he said it just kept going. Probably didn’t see because it was too dark,” witness Darrwn Torzyn said.

“There were police everywhere, they worked really hard on her for about half-hour [to] 45 minutes and nothing could be done.”

The driver from North Haven stopped immediately.

The ute was taken away and will be forensically examined but so far, no charges have been laid against the 34-year-old driver.

Police are continuing to piece together exactly what happened.