Pedestrian hit and killed along I-40 in Wake County

Friday, August 21, 2015
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- A pedestrian was hit and killed near the Interstate 40/440 construction zone in Wake County early Friday morning.

It happened around 2 a.m. in the westbound lanes of I-40 near S. Saunders Street in Raleigh. Authorities said 38-year-old Annmarie Elizabeth Perna, was walking across the lanes after her sedan broke down.

She was then struck by a 2010 white Toyota pickup driven by 45-year-old Shawn Lyndell Price. Perna died at the scene. Price was not injured.
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No charges have been filed.

The accident shut down all three westbound lanes between exit 297 and exit 298 for a couple of hours as authorities investigated the accident.

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