A 73-year-old woman hit by a car while crossing West Morehead Street with her husband during Sunday’s nearby Carolina Panthers game died in the hospital on Monday, according to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police news release Tuesday night.

Diane Babinec was crossing in the 400 block “several feet behind her husband” when an SUV driven by a 19-year-old woman hit her at about 3:30 p.m., the CMPD news release said.

Off-duty traffic police working the Panthers’ game responded to the collision, along with CMPD Central Division officers, according to the news release.

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