Delaware State Police
News Release

Pedestrian Cited in Traffic Crash

Released- Thursday, May 08, 2008

Wilmington- On Wednesday, May 7^th, at approximately 3:50 p.m., Troopers responded to Lancaster Avenue north of Greenhill Avenue for the report of a crash in which a pedestrian was struck.

A 1995 Mazda 626 (operated by Capri Wallace, 29, of East 24^th Street in Wilmington) was traveling eastbound on Lancaster Avenue approaching Greenhill Avenue in the right lane.  A pedestrian (identified as Galinda Cortez, 30, of Greenhill Avenue) attempted to travel southbound across Lancaster Avenue to maker her way to a DART bus stop.  She ran directly into the path of the Mazda 626.

Ms. Cortez was transported to Christiana Hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.  She was cited with Crossing the Street at a Location other Than a Crosswalk.