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18-year-old woman hit by car, killed while walking on Arlington sidewalk, police say

An 18-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a vehicle while she walked in Arlington on Sunday morning, according to the Arlington Police Department.
An 18-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a vehicle while she walked in Arlington on Sunday morning, according to the Arlington Police Department.

An 18-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a vehicle while walking on a sidewalk along Cooper Street in Arlington on Sunday morning, according to the Arlington Police Department.

The woman, who was identified as Jordan Coleman by the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office, was hit in the 2000 block of South Cooper Street just before 11:30 a.m.

The driver was heading northbound on Cooper Street and “for an unknown reason, the vehicle left the roadway and drove onto the east sidewalk parallel to the lanes where a pedestrian was walking,” a news release said.

The driver, who was not identified and was not injured, is cooperating with investigators, police said.

This story was originally published February 4, 2019 at 7:05 PM with the headline "18-year-old woman hit by car, killed while walking on Arlington sidewalk, police say."

Nichole Manna
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Nichole Manna was an award-winning investigative reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 2018 to 2023, focusing on criminal justice. Previously, she was a reporter at newspapers in Tennessee, North Carolina, Nebraska and Kansas. She is on Twitter: @NicholeManna
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