Update: Coroner identifies pedestrian killed by vehicle on Overland Road Wednesday
A pedestrian who died after being hit by a vehicle on Overland Road on Wednesday evening has been identified.
On Friday, the Ada County Coroner’s Office said the victim was Anna M. Lay, a 54-year-old Boise woman. She was pronounced dead just before 8 p.m. Wednesday at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, according to a news release. The cause of death was listed as blunt force injuries.
Just after 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, police were dispatched to the area of West Overland Road, just west of South Five Mile Road, and found a vehicle versus pedestrian crash, according to a news release from BPD.
A preliminary investigation by police indicated that a woman was walking north across Overland when she was hit by a car driving west on the same road. The woman was not in a crosswalk, according to that investigation.
In a police news release sent after 10 p.m. on Wednesday, police reported that the woman had died from her injuries.
Boise police detectives and a crash reconstruction team were called to the scene to investigate. Westbound lanes of Overland Road were shut down while authorities investigated.
The driver in the crash stopped immediately, according to BPD. No charges had been filed in connection with the crash as of Wednesday night.
This story was originally published September 29, 2021 at 8:40 PM.
