Pedestrian, 43, walking on northbound Broadway dead after hit by car Sunday night
A 43-year-old woman died after she was hit by a vehicle late Sunday night near the intersection of Broadway and 119th Street South, according to the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office.
Kandy Fairchild of Wichita was walking in the northbound lane of Broadway around 10 p.m. when she was hit by a Toyota Camry that was also headed north, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The circumstances of the collision remained under investigation Monday, the office said.
The 23-year-old woman driving the Camry and her passenger weren’t hurt. Fairchild died at the crash site.
This is the second pedestrian-vehicle collision investigated by the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office this year. The first, at 4900 S. Oliver on Jan. 27, had no fatalities, sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Benjamin Blick said.
Wichita police have investigated five pedestrian fatalities since Jan. 1 — the same number killed in the city for all of 2020, police spokesman Officer Charley Davidson said.
This story was originally published April 5, 2021 at 11:42 AM.
