WEST BRIDGEWATER, MASS. (WHDH) - An investigation continued Tuesday as friends also remembered the life of a woman from Raynham who was killed in a hit-and-run crash in West Bridgewater Monday night.
The woman has been identified as 46-year-old Erpharo Gilbert. Officials said she died after the crash, which happened around 10:30 p.m. on the northbound side of Route 24.
Police said a preliminary investigation indicated that a Toyota Scion and Gilbert’s car, a Honda Accord, were driving along Route 24 when the Toyota changed lanes and made contact with the Honda.
The impact pushed the Honda into the median, where it came into contact with a concrete barrier. Police said the driver in the Toyota fled the scene.
As the Honda was stationary in the left travel lane, a Ford Maverick pickup struck its rear, causing it to become fully engulfed in flames, police said. The West Bridgewater Fire Department knocked down the car fire.
Gilbert was pronounced dead at the site of the crash.
The operator of the Ford, a 23-year-old Brockton man, was not injured.
All three northbound lanes on Route 24 were shut down for about four hours as police processed the crash, collecting evidence and looking for clues while scrambling to locate the person who they said left the scene.
Hours later, heartbroken neighbors spoke out.
“She’s got a little boy,” neighbor Leslie Aranda said. “She’s got a husband. Her mother [is] living there. It’s just sad.”
“I feel terrible for the driver of the truck that hit the car,” Aranda continued. “The whole thing is just a mess.”
Aranda said she hopes the person who left the scene after this crash turns themselves in.
“Just make it right,” she said.
The crash remained under investigation by state police as of Tuesday afternoon.
Police have asked anyone who has information on the driver who left the scene to come forward.
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