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2 people hit by car in Town Center area of Virginia Beach, 1 killed

Nathan Poole was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, the Virginia Beach Police Department told 13News Now.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — UPDATE: One person is dead and another is in the hospital after someone hit them with a truck at a busy intersection in Virginia Beach Town Center on Monday afternoon.

It happened outside of the Tupelo Honey Café around 4 p.m. 

The woman killed was Rosa Blanco, 76, according to the Virginia Beach Police Department. The other person, a 79-year-old woman, is in stable condition.

Nathan Poole was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, the police department told 13News Now. More charges are pending depending on the outcome of the investigation.

Police documents say he was driving a pickup truck, and was turning when the women entered the crosswalk. 

After the crash happened, Poole pulled over into the parking lot and cooperated with police officers, according to the department.

The documents say after he started cooperating with police, he failed some field sobriety tests, and when they took him to test his blood, he allegedly told them he'd smoked marijuana.

Ginovia Haynes was running errands with her three children when she heard the commotion.

"I heard a yelp. I thought it was just somebody basically playing around outside. But the receptionist from Len’s Crafters was like, 'Somebody got hit.'"

A car hit two pedestrians, killing one there on the crosswalk. The second was taken to the hospital after going into cardiac arrest.

"It’s heart-wrenching," Haynes said.

She said she saw someone give CPR to the person who died at the scene.

The intersection of Main Street and Constitution Drive was blocked off as dozens of Virginia Beach police officers investigated the accident.

Natalie Charon said she was driving by with her granddaughter when she saw all of the police tape. 

"It’s so bad during certain times of the day. People are not paying attention to street lights, they’re not paying attention to the crosswalks or anything like that. Everybody’s just in a hurry to go nowhere and, you know, something like this happens," Charon said.

13News Now spoke to multiple people who watched the scene unfold, who said the intersection specifically and Town Center as a whole has been a problem for both pedestrians and drivers. 

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