NYPD: Woman, 44, killed in pedestrian accident on Hylan Boulevard. on Staten Island

STATEN ISLAND, NY – The NYPD identified Denise Owens of New Dorp Beach as the 44-year-old woman who tragically died after being struck by a car at a busy intersection in New Dorp on Wednesday evening.

According to a spokeswoman for the NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Public Information, police responded to a pedestrian struck at the intersection of Hylan Boulevard and New Dorp Lane at approximately 10:28 p.m.

According to a preliminary investigation by the NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Squad, Owens was traveling east on Hylan in the left lane of Hylan Boulevard when she was struck by a 2012 Nissan Maxima traveling west on Hylan.