2 people injured in separate Youngstown traffic accidents

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are investigating two separate traffic incidents Tuesday that sent two people to St. Elizabeth Health Center.

About 9:30 p.m., police were called for a person down in the devil’s strip in front of a home in the 200 block of East Judson Avenue. Police found 58-year-old Connie Thomas lying on the ground injured.

Detective Sgt. Dave Lomax said a person with Thomas said she was hit by a passing car that did not stop. Her injuries are serious, Lomax said. Police are trying to find out how she was hit.

Police are also investigating after a car and motorcycle collided at Mahoning and Schenley avenues about 10:15 p.m.

Lomax said there is not much information yet but he did say the driver of the motorcycle also had serious injuries.