Woman injured in Jersey City hit-and-run

JERSEY CITY, NJ – Police are searching for a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run in Jersey City that sent a 48-year-old woman to the hospital with a serious injury.

According to police, on Friday, the woman was walking in the area of Martin Luther King Drive and Woodlawn Avenue.

Upon their arrival, officers located the woman with an injury to a lower extremity, but the vehicle that struck her was nowhere to be found. Police said the vehicle fled the scene after the incident

The victim was transported by Emergency Medical Services to Jersey City Medical Center for treatment.