The driver and passenger of the vehicle that ploughed into a woman who was walking at the side of the EN125 near Algarve Shopping just after 05.30 last Saturday morning have been traced and arrested.
Drivers who witnessed who saw the 41-year-old pedestrian being hit, stopped to help her and called emergency services. Paramedics tried for an hour to save her life but she died at the roadside.
The GNR interviewed the eye-witnesses and on July 6th announced that two people had been arrested in relation to the hit-and-run and the woman's subsequent death.
A 41-year-old man, whom the police suspect of driving the vehicle, and his passenger, were traced and the vehicle taken for detailed examination.
For the original report, see:
http://www.algarvedailynews.com/news/9277-hit-and-run-leaves-woman-dead-near-algarve-shopping
