SAN ANTONIO – A woman was hit and killed by a suspected drunk driver as she walked on a sidewalk in her Northwest Side neighborhood, San Antonio police said.
It happened at about 10:40 a.m. on Wednesday in the 6200 block of Viva Max Drive.
The woman has been identified as Irma Lozano, 78.
Police said she was hit and killed when the driver of a gray Ford Edge veered across Oak Hill Road and then drove up onto the sidewalk. The driver then drove into a yard and hit a tree.
Lozano was out for a walk with her son and their dogs. She had stopped to talk to her friend and neighbor when it happened.
“We were talking face-to-face. I was, like, five feet or three feet away,” said Lily Delgado. “A car came and just picked her up in front of me.”
The car continued to drive through a yard until it hit a tree.
“She hit it so hard that it came out with a root,” Delgado said.
Lozano died at the scene.
That driver has been identified as a 59-year-old woman. Police have not yet released her name.
She was transported to the hospital by ambulance. SAPD said she is facing a charge of intoxication manslaughter.
