Woman killed in hit-and-run

A young woman was killed in a hit-and-run on Tuesday evening on Chaoyang Beilu, Chaoyang district, Beijing Emergency Medical Center (BEMC) confirmed via its Sina microblog Wednesday morning.

According to BEMC, when paramedics arrived, the victim's showed no signs of life. She had sustained fatal crush injuries to her head.

A doctor, surnamed Cai, who was on duty Tuesday night in BEMC's Chaoyang branch, said the victim was a woman in her 20s.

The manager of a hairdresser near the scene, surnamed Tang, called the emergency services on Tuesday night.

The manager told the Global Times Wednesday that she found the woman's body near a crossroad close to Huangquxi bus station on Chaoyang Beilu on her way home at about 9:40 pm.

"Her head was crushed with the brains and blood on the ground. There was a twisted bicycle nearby," she said.

"There were many cars that had stopped as they could not get past, but none of the drivers got out, and there was nobody around the victim," said Tang.

Tang said that she called the police and then went to a nearby mutton soup restaurant. The police arrived quite quickly.

"I was too frightened by the horrible sight and called my husband to come and take me home," she said.

She said that since no suspicious vehicles had halted near the body, she thought the driver involved might have escaped.

Mou Baifu, manager of the mutton soup restaurant, told the Global Times that at about 11 am Wednesday, two men and a young woman holding a baby came to the restaurant asking whether they know of any first-hand witnesses to the accident.

"One of the men said that the woman was a family member of the victim," said Mou.

Some bloodstains could still be seen in the middle of the road on Wednesday midday. Due to the construction of Subway Line 6 in this spot outside the East Fifth Ring Road, the road becomes narrow and the traffic flow is not very smooth.

The scene was only 50 meters from the traffic lights but there were no surveillance cameras.

Tang said that the cameras had been removed since subway construction began.

"But in the nine years I've worked in this hairdresser, I haven't heard of any accidents at this crossroad," she said.

Qi Qi, media officer from the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau said police are investigating the incident, although Zi Xiangdong, media officer from Beijing Public Security Bureau refused to comment.