Woman walking to polling place in Affton struck by car and killed

Voters waited in line outside the Affton community center about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday while police tape shut down all lanes of traffic on Mackenzie Road. A pedestrian was struck by a car while crossing the road to vote. The victim was taken to a hospital; no information on injuries was immediately released. The driver, a woman who was visibly shaken while talking to officers, remained at the crash site and was cooperating with police, a sergeant said. (Kim Bell/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS)

AFFTON, Mo. — An 85-year-old woman crossing a street Tuesday morning to vote inside the Affton community center was struck by a car and killed, police said.

Sgt. Benjamin Granda of the St. Louis County Police Department said the woman was walking across Mackenzie Road, headed to the Affton White-Rodgers Community Center at 9801 Mackenzie Road, when she was hit just after 6 a.m.

The victim's name has not yet been released.

Officers worked to save the woman at the scene but she was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital, Granda said.

The driver who struck the woman remained at the scene and was cooperating with police. She was visibly shaken as she talked to officers. Police said the driver is 26 years old. She was driving south in a Honda Accord when she struck the woman walking west across the road, police said.

A long line of voters waiting to go into the community center watched as police interviewed the driver and processed the scene for evidence.