Bystanders Tried to Revive New Haven Crash Victim: Report

NEW HAVEN, CT — A number of people tried to revive a 42-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a vehicle while standing on a sidewalk Tuesday.

Southern Connecticut State University Nursing student Alysha Kalinowski said she ran over to the woman and called 911 while another woman she believed was a nurse checked her pulse and started CPR, according to WTNH.

Melisssa Tancredi passed away despite the best efforts of bystanders and hospital staff. She was engaged to be married and leaves behind two children. She was an EEG technician at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Police continue to investigate the crash.

Tancredi was on the sidewalk near South Frontage Road and York street when she was struck by a vehicle operated by Agnese Izzo, 29, of Hamden, said Officer David Hartman, police spokesman.

"Izzo was operating her car in the leftmost lane of South Frontage Road," Hartman said. "Her lane is a left turn only lane that does not continue (ahead) beyond the intersection. Despite traveling in the left turn only lane, Izzo continued straight. He car jumped the curbstone, continued a few feet, struck the pedestrian and then a lamp post and the corner of the air-rights garage."

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