Gastonia police said a local woman was hit and killed by a van about 6 p.m. Tuesday night when attempting to cross a poorly lit road.
54-year-old Thelma Jean Featherstone was crossing over the 100 block of East Hudson Boulevard, police Sgt. K.C. McCabe Wednesday.
According to McCabe, police were told by witnesses that another vehicle had avoided hitting the woman, but then a 2003 Ford van struck the Featherstone. Gaston County EMS transported Featherstone to Gastonia’s CaraMont Regional Medical Center. She died there.
Gastonian Carolyn Postell was the driver of the van that hit Featherstone, but no charges are being filed in the accident, McCabe said.