Another death on Philadelphia’s Roosevelt Blvd.
The deadly accident follows a year in which traffic deaths on the massive roadway spiked.
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One woman is dead and another hospitalized following a one-vehicle crash on accident-plagued Roosevelt Boulevard early Sunday morning in Northeast Philadelphia.
The deceased, Brenda Singleton, 35, was a passenger in a 2005 Hyundai traveling north in the inner lanes of the Boulevard when it crashed into a pole at the intersection of Bustleton Avenue, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver, a 34-year-old woman whose identity police have not released, is in critical condition at Jefferson Torresdale Hospital, police said.
Charges are pending upon further investigation, police said. No additional details were available.
The death follows one of the deadliest years for the road, the scene of 21 fatal crashes last year, the Inquirer and Daily News reported last month. Of the city’s 96 fatal crashes last year, 22 percent occurred on the Boulevard.