The real issue here is finding anyone who has ever seen a Red & Silver metal food truck with white writing on the front -- likely works in JC or Union City area -- the truck can be seen in the lower left of this photo. (click picture to enlarge)

No one on JC List knows whether she was walking or riding her bike or where exactly she was hit.

Its one thing to walk on the road when the sidewalk is covered in snow and ice. It's a another to be walking with a bike on such a busy highway.

Lets hope this is a good lead. Even is she was walking her bike why didn't she cross to the other side quickly instead of walking it on the roadway ? I see this a lot from new people in J.C. they walk in the street instead of the sidewalk. Sometimes I say something but they just smile at me or tune me out. Not a good pattern to practice, maybe this is why our insurance rates are so high.

Red & Silver/chrome food truck with white writing on the front

Please see more photos: (click link below)

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/02/2 ... nd-run-that-killed-woman/

The recent article state that the family wants answers, not sure if there will be any. There is not any footage from cameras. No one knows who hit her and whether this is a hit & run or not. Could she have made some enemies while here for her visit ? There are many unsolved mysteries out there.

Nobody knows, as far as I understand, whether she was riding or walking the bike. Nobody even knows the exact time it happened, as it was a hit-and-run. The bike was found nearby. Of course the impact could have thrown her off the bike, or she could have been walking it.

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I thought she was walking it in the crosswalk.

Family members of the Jersey City woman who was killed in a hit-and-run accident on Feb. 20 were brought to the Jersey City accident scene today and are asking for answers.

"She was loved by everyone," the family of Ayako Okabe, 30, said in a statement. "We hope that this case is solved as quickly as possible."

Ayako Okabe, of Japan, who had spent the past year in Jersey City working for an international shipping company, was riding her bicycle on Routes 1&9 just north of Duncan Avenue at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 20 when she was struck and killed.

Her body was discovered by the driver of a Hudson County jail transport vehicle, authorities said. Okabe had just finished her last day of work and was planning to fly back to Japan this week to reunite with her husband.

Okabe's family declined to be interviewed.

Today her family was escorted by sheriff's officers and detectives and an interpreter from the Japanese Consulate in New York to the location where her body was located. Family members could be seen pointing at spots in the roadway and taking pictures.

Sheriff's Office spokesman Mike Makarski said there are several security cameras in the area and that investigators are gathering as much footage as they can.

"The Sheriff's Office is utilizing every resource" to find answers on Okabe's death, Makarski said.

Family of woman in fatal Jersey City hit-and-run flies from Japan for answers

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She was walking her bike when she was hit.

Sometimes you have to get off your bike and cross at the crosswalk. Working at that company she should have known how to navigate the area better. Remember cross at the green not in between.

If I recall, this may have been during the fog advisory, which could have contributed to the accident. Very sad - my heart goes out to the family.

True. But originating on the westernmost part of Duncan Avenue, you must first traverse the 1&9 in order to get to any route. There was no alternative.

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There are a lot of ways to get to Magnolia Ave. from Duncan Ave. without riding on 1&9.

She worked on Duncan, west of 1&9, way over by the Hudson County Prosecutor's office. She was on her way home, to Magnolia Ave., after work.

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Why not use West Side Avenue? 1&9 is always dangerous for bikes and pedestrians. People haul ass.

These photos were taken last night around 5PM. The corners were in bad shape. Walking West on Duncan, on the North side, I was forced out into the street just before making the Northeast corner, then I had to hop back into the mini fjords just to make it to the corner while a minivan rolled up alongside me just inches away. It was a treacherous scene to walk, all the more tricky with a bike 48 hours previous.

There was a ton of truck traffic, going in and coming out of west Duncan and of course, the average speed on the 1&9 seems like 60 mph. Despite traffic lights, nowhere else in this city does traffic move as swiftly as it does along the 1&9 and 440 stretch.

Initial reports say police speculate she was walking her bike. If true, this tragedy is on the driver of the car/truck that hit her. Very sad story, one that could have been avoided. You got to wonder about the city's response to the storm(s). Was it all that good?


Looking East on Duncan, West of 1&9.




Looking South from Northwest corner of Duncan and 1&9.




Looking South from Southeast corner of Duncan and 1&9. (Note condition of "sidewalk")




Lastly, looking North from Southeast corner. Bottom of pic shows the ice.

Anybody care to venture a guess as to why she was walking in the roadway and not on the sidewalk?
















Photos taken today.

The woman killed last night in an apparent hit-and-run in Jersey City on Route 1/9 just north of Duncan Avenue was 31 and lived in Jersey City, according to Hudson County Sheriff Frank Schillari.

Because her next-of-kin in Japan has not yet been notified, the 31-year-old Jersey City woman's name is not being released at this time, Schillari said.

"What it looks like is she was walking down the highway," he said. "She was walking and holding a bike next to her. Maybe because she had the bike on her side, she was a little further out on the road."

Schillari said no arrests have been made and detectives from the Hudson County Sheriff's Office, which is the agency handling the investigation, are reviewing video footage of the area in hopes of catching a glimpse of the car or truck that got away.

He said detectives probably wouldn't find video evidence of the woman getting struck since there isn't a camera at the exact location she was struck.

"We're hoping to get video of the vehicle going down Sip Avenue, to catch a vehicle with damage done to it," Schillari said.

He told The Jersey Journal that the woman's cause of death appeared to be "blunt force to the head."

"(Investigators) didn't think there were any broken bones, they think it was blunt force to the head," he said. "Maybe the person who hit her didn't know he hit somebody, but the investigators will figure it out."

When asked how long she had been lying there, in an area that handles heavy traffic, before someone called for help, Schillari said that wasn't currently known.

A HCSO prisoner transportation vehicle was returning from the Hudson County jail in Kearny when the driver spotted the body -- initially thought to be a large bag -- and called it in at 6:46 p.m., Schillari said.

Anyone with information on the fatal hit and run is asked to call the Hudson County Sheriff's Office at (201) 915-1300.

A bike was found upside-down nearby.

The woman has been tentatively identified, but her family has not yet been notified.

Speaking of bike lanes, an absolutely horrific piece of news. Fatal hit-and-run at Duncan Ave