A woman is dead after she was hit and killed crossing the street, Friday morning.

A 15-year-old girl has been sent to the hospital after a hit-and-run crash left her lying in the road near Bonanza Road and Lamb Boulevard, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

As the crosswalk signal flashes near Charleston and Eastern, pedestrians come and go.

On Friday night at 6:30 p.m., the Nevada Highway Patrol will hold a candlelight vigil to remember the 59 victims who died in crashes in NHP’s Southern Nevada jurisdiction in 2017.

Family and friends are mourning the loss of Elijah Coggins, the teen who was killed after being hit by a car Tuesday night.

Last year was the deadliest on record for pedestrians in Clark County, where 78 people were fatally struck by vehicles on public roads, according to preliminary figures released Thursday by the state Office of Traffic Safety.

Motorists continued to dodge orange cones and discovered alternate routes amid the multiple road and freeway construction projects in 2017.