Authorities are still looking for a hit-and-run driver who killed a Mount Airy, Georgia, woman on Saturday.
Georgia State Patrol Post 7 Commander Donnie Saddler says they still don’t know who struck and killed 21-year-old Mia Y. Alvarez.
State troopers say Alvarez was walking in the northbound lane of Dicks Hill Parkway near Bridgewater Drive when the incident occurred sometime before 7:30 p.m. on December 2. She died at the scene.
Troopers from Post 7 investigated the incident. Their preliminary report states whoever was responsible left the scene and “could not be located or identified.”
They’re asking anyone with information to contact them at 706-282-4531.
Five pedestrian fatalities in 5 months
Alvarez is the second person to be killed in a hit-and-run and at least the fifth to die in a pedestrian crash in Habersham County since August.
On August 18, a hit-and-run driver struck and killed Robert Reeves of Clarkesville as he walked alongside his bike on Highway 17. Authorities have still not located the driver in that incident.
The three other pedestrian fatalities involved drivers who did stop: none of them were charged.
On August 10, a van struck and killed Mark Shepard of Marietta on GA 385 at Midway Crossing in Cornelia. Less than a week later, on August 16, a pickup truck hit and killed Stephen Mizell of Lula on GA 197 south of Clarkesville.
On September 13, Crystal Ann Thomas was struck and killed while walking south on the Level Grove northbound exit in Cornelia.
