Overview
- Underwood, 33, was struck around 6:50 a.m. in Brownsville and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
- Detectives say the Explorer crossed the double yellow line, drove against traffic, and hit her as she crossed at a marked crosswalk on Pitkin Avenue.
- A black-and-gray sedan then struck her while she was on the roadway, and both drivers fled without stopping, with no arrests reported.
- Surveillance footage cited by media shows a vehicle traveling roughly a block with her trapped beneath it before her body dislodged.
- The NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Squad is leading the probe and seeking information, as her father requests privacy; Underwood was known for All That and for voicing Fuchsia on Little Bill.