Hit-and-Run Pedestrian Accident Near Tufts

A pedestrian was hit by a car shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday evening at the intersection of Powderhouse Boulevard and Packard Avenue, near . 

According to witnesses, the woman was crossing the street in the crosswalk when a car sped into the intersection, honked, then hit the woman.

"She flew up onto the windshield, they floored it and drove away," said Flavia, a Tufts student who witnessed the incident and did not want to give her last name.

Flavia and another Tufts student who witnessed the accident said they called 911. They said the car fled westward on Powderhouse Boulevard.

Another woman, who also did not give her name, was walking along Powderhouse Boulevard when she heard screeching wheels and saw the car speed off. The woman, an EMT, rushed to the intersection to help the pedestrian, who was on lying the pavement. She said the victim had a gash on her head but seemed to be okay.

Flavia said of the victim, "she was talking."

Somerville Police, Tufts Police, the Somerville Fire Department and EMTs responded to the accident. Police officers and firefighters at the scene chose not to make comments.

At about 5:05 p.m., as she was being loaded into the back of an ambulance, the victim appeared alert, though she had a bloody gash on her forehead.

In July, at this same intersection, to rescue victims from an accident that sent three people to the hospital.