Bicyclist Killed in Katy Crash: a 22-Year-Old Is Dead on Pitts Road, and the Driver Is Charged With Failure to Stop and Render Aid
Chinwe Keisha Egbo was riding southbound on Pitts Road on Sunday night. The sheriff says the driver told an off-duty deputy at a gas station she had struck something - then left her vehicle there and was gone.
A 22-year-old woman riding her bicycle was struck and killed Sunday night in the Katy area, and the driver accused of hitting her was later arrested after leaving her vehicle at a nearby gas station, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, in reporting by the Texas Herald News. The crash occurred around 10 p.m. on November 8 in the 4100 block of Pitts Road near Clay Road.
The victim was identified as Chinwe Keisha Egbo, 22. According to preliminary findings from the Harris County Sheriff's Office, Egbo was riding southbound on Pitts Road when she was struck by a vehicle driven by Trianna Denise Walker, 61. Egbo suffered fatal injuries in the collision.
Following the crash, Walker reportedly stopped at a nearby gas station, where she approached an off-duty Harris County sheriff's deputy and told him she had struck something in the roadway, according to Gonzalez. The deputy went to investigate and discovered Egbo at the crash scene; when he returned to the gas station, Walker was gone, though her vehicle remained at the location.
Authorities subsequently located Walker and took her into custody. She has been charged with failure to stop and render aid in connection with the fatal collision - charged, not convicted. The Harris County Sheriff's Office continues to investigate the crash.
