Woman Trying to Save Stray Dog In Traffic Struck and Killed

Police in Albertville, Alabama responded to an accident Saturday night in which a woman was struck by a pickup truck and killed while trying to save a stray dog in the road.

News19 reported that the woman, who was identified as 31-year-old Christina Nicole Green, was hit by a truck that was driving south on a highway at about 8 p.m.

Green was reportedly a passenger in a vehicle that was driving north when she saw a dog trying to cross the road. She asked the driver of the vehicle she was in to pull over in order to help the dog get out of the road.

After crossing the northbound lane of traffic and the median, she walked into the southbound lane, where she was hit by the pickup truck. Green was pronounced dead at the scene but the driver of the truck was not injured. News19 reported that police were investigating the accident.

According to statistics from 2019 published by Drive Safe Alabama, which is an organization connected to the state's department of transportation, a person was killed in a traffic crash every 9 hours and 26 minutes. And, for each fatality that year, there were about 50 injuries.

Over the course of 10 years, the number of pedestrians involved in a crash increased.

"Pedestrian fatalities increased 81 percent since 2010, which traffic safety professionals attribute largely to distracted walking with electronic devices," a study released by the Alabama Department of Transportation stated.

A table that was included in the study also broke down the pedestrians involved by age and severity of the recorded accidents. The age group with the highest number of injuries resulting from an accident involved individuals between 31- and 40-years-old. That same age group had the same number of fatalities as a result of a vehicular accident as those between the ages of 41- and 50-years-old.

With all of the age groups included, a total of 905 pedestrians were involved in some sort of accident or crash in 2019.

Newsweek recently reported on another accident that resulted in the death of pedestrians.

Three valet employees were killed by a driver who was allegedly trying to drive away from police in Houston, Texas. Police said that a sergeant was on patrol and spotted a driver doing donuts in a private parking lot.

The officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop after the driver left the parking lot, but the driver "accelerated at a very high speed," and created distance. The officer learned once he caught up with the car that the driver hit the three pedestrians. They were pronounced dead at the scene.

Newsweek reached out to the Albertville Police Department for further comment but did not hear back from a representative by press time.