Potchefstroom – A woman died after being hit by a car on the R54 outside Potchefstroom on Friday, paramedics said.

She was critically hurt when they got there and they tried to revive her, but she died, said ER24 spokeswoman Vanessa Jackson.

The car that hit her was not on the scene when paramedics arrived, she said.

People who had been walking with the woman when she was hit were not injured, said Jackson.

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