VIDEO| Pedestrian killed when cars collide

Two car crash on South Avenue

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Two cars crashed on South Avenue, colliding into the East Side Civics & Athletic Club.

YOUNGSTOWN — City police said a woman walking along South Avenue was fatally injured when she was struck by one of two cars that collided at South and Philadelphia avenues.

The identity of the victim, described only as a white woman perhaps in her early 40s, wasn’t immediately known. Police said she wasn’t carrying any identification.

Police said a silver Pontiac was eastbound on Philadelphia around 6:15 p.m. today when it apparently failed to stop for a stop sign at South Avenue and collided with a white Dodge Neon headed north on South Avenue.

Both cars then ran off the road and onto the sidewalk, where the Pontiac pinned the woman against a wall of East Side Civics at 2929 South Ave., police said.

Police didn’t immediately release the names of either driver but said both were women. A second woman and two children were in the Pontiac, police said.

Everyone was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center but only the pedestrian suffered serious injury, police said.

Nico Kostalas was in East Side Civics when he heard the crash.

Kostalas said he ran outside and saw the woman pinned against the building and called 911.

He said he advised her not to move until emergency crews arrived to free her, and then he helped get the children out of the Pontiac.