Crime & Safety

Woman Struck by Car in Maple Shade: Police

This is the third pedestrian motor vehicle accident in the Maple Shade area in the last week.

Maple Shade Police are investigating another incident of a pedestrian struck by a motor vehicle, the second in the township in the last several days.

Police said 49-year-old Barbara Cooper, of Maple Shade, was struck by a vehicle on the 2800 block of Route 73 North, just before Route 38, around 7:12 p.m. Friday. Cooper was taken to Cooper University Hospital in Camden with a broken pelvis.

The driver, a 44-year-old Pennsauken woman, is cooperating with police and no charges have been filed, according to a report.

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The Maple Shade Police Department Traffic Safety Division and the Investigation Division investigated the accident. The case number is 13-16959.

A 68-year-old Maple Shade man was seriously injured after being struck by a car on North Forklanding Road last Friday, and another township man, Aung Naing Htwe, was killed in an early morning crash last Saturday on Church Road, on the Maple Shade-Cherry Hill border.

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The drivers in both accidents were not charged, police said.

Police stress that a highway is always a potentially dangerous place for pedestrians and should be avoided if possible. If you must walk along or cross a highway, consider these safety tips (provided by police):

The Maple Shade Fire Department and state Department of Transportation assisted police with traffic control and safety at the scene. Traffic was reduced to one lane northbound during the investigation.


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