COLORADO SPRINGS — A person is dead after they were hit by a vehicle on Airport Rd. Friday afternoon, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department. It happened at the intersection of Airport Rd. & Chelton Rd. just before 3 p.m.
In a blotter post, the department said that the person stuck and killed appeared to be crossing Airport Road from the south to the north and it appears they may not have been in a crosswalk at the time of the crash. The vehicle left the scene, and police say it is a dark-colored four-door sedan that may have front-end damage on its left side, no other details about the vehicle have been provided at this time.
Airport Rd. was closed at the intersection for a little over two and a half hours. It reopened just before 5:40 p.m. Friday.
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