Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Woman; Worker Dies at UCLA

A 75-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man were killed Saturday morning in separate accidents, police said.

The woman, on her regular, early morning walk in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles, was struck by a hit-and-run driver at Western Avenue and 2nd Street. Authorities said Yun S. Yoon was crossing Western about 5:40 a.m. when she was struck by a southbound car.

Witnesses described the driver as a light-skinned man and the car as a two-door, light-blue Dodge or Chevrolet. It was last seen going west on 3rd Street, police said.

The victim was apparently leaving for a morning stroll, and her daughter had just pressed the pedestrian-crossing button for her when she was struck, police said.

According to the report by the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Traffic Bureau, the woman had told her daughter that she wanted to take her walk by herself, apparently her first time out alone. In an unrelated incident later in the morning, a construction worker was killed when a double tractor-trailer struck him at a work site on the UCLA campus, authorities said.

Campus police spokeswoman Nancy Greenspean said the man was working inside an enclosed area near Dykstra Hall just before 9 a.m. when he was struck. He died on the scene.

Greenspean said release of his name was pending notification of family members.

The site is near a residential complex inside the Westwood campus and workers were clearing the terrain for a new building, she said.