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Woman killed in car crash in Northeast Philadelphia

The car’s driver "failed to negotiate a turn" and hit a light pole head-on, police said.

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A woman was killed in a single-car crash in Northeast Philadelphia late Friday night, police said.

The woman was one of several passengers in a car driving westbound on Woodhaven Road around 11:15 p.m. Friday, police said. The car’s driver took an off-ramp toward Thornton Road but “failed to negotiate a turn,” police wrote in a news release, and hit a light pole head-on.

The woman, who had been sitting in the back seat, was seriously injured and was taken to Aria Torresdale Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 11:48 p.m., police said.