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MARTINEZ — Authorities have identified a Pleasant Hill resident as the woman fatally hit by a car while walking on a highway last week.
Aniesha Dotson, 38, died June 1 after a person driving a Lexus IS-250 south on Highway 242 hit her just south of the Clayton Road exit, the California Highway Patrol said. The collision happened about 11:30 p.m.
She died at the scene.
Authorities held off making her identity available while they tracked down her next of kin.
A passenger in the Lexus suffered minor injuries in the crash, according to the CHP. The driver wasn’t inured.
The CHP said it does not know why Dotson was in the roadway.
Originally published at Rick Hurd