Woman in wheelchair crossing street in dense fog hit, killed

KITTANNING, Pa. (AP) - Officials in Pennsylvania say a woman in a wheelchair crossing the street in dense fog was hit by a pickup truck and killed.

Armstrong County Coroner Brian Myers says 53-year-old Sylvia Denslow was crossing the road after leaving a convenience store in Kittanning, about 45 miles north of Pittsburgh, around 5:30 a.m. on Thursday when she was struck by the Ford F-150.

State police say she’d been staying at hotel near the convenience store for a few days but was essentially homeless.

Myers says Denslow was with her boyfriend but he told authorities he was holding coffee and not pushing Denslow’s chair when she was hit.