BRICK When a car struck and killed a 55-year-old woman Monday night on Route 70, it was the latest tragedy to befall a down-on-their-luck homeless couple who had lost their possessions in the recent Lakewood wildfire.
Police say Kathleen Winits was walking against the light and not in the crosswalk when she was struck by a driver who stopped to help.
Winits and her husband had escaped with little more than their lives when the fire on March 14 tore through their encampment behind the Lowe s on Cedarbridge Avenue, Minister Steven Brigham told New Jersey 101.5. During the fire they lost everything, Brigham, who met the couple when they lived at the Tent City he ran in Lakewood, said. Their tent and everything burned completely to the ground. Right after the fire I put them up for a couple of nights in a hotel in Bricktown and they were doing very well.
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BRICK - Police said a township woman was killed after being struck by a motorist while attempting to cross Route 70 Monday night, just weeks after she fled a large brush fire in Lakewood, losing nearly all her possessions.
Kathleen Winits, 55, was attempting to cross the highway at Olden Street at 6:55 p.m. when she was hit by a Mercedes C30, according to officials.
The car was going through a green a light and the pedestrian was not in a crosswalk, authorities said.
The driver came to a stop after the collision, according to police.
Winits was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.