A 68-year-old woman was found fatally injured Friday, Sept. 21, along a road near her French Valley home, authorities said.

It appeared she was struck by a vehicle that left the scene, said Officer Nathan Baer, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol.

Family members went looking for the woman after she didn’t return from her morning walk, said Sgt. Dean Spivacke of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. About 8:45 a.m. they found her unconscious on the shoulder of Brookridge Lane near Washington Street, he said.

The woman died at 9:50 a.m. at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Murrieta, coroner’s officials said.

As of 5 p.m. Friday, her name had not been released.

The Sheriff’s Department was assisting the CHP with the investigation Friday. If investigators were to determine the woman was hit intentionally, the Sheriff’s Department would take over the case, said CHP Sgt. Cory Ball.

“There are a lot of unknowns at this point,” Ball said at the scene.

Brookridge was blocked off for hours with yellow crime scene tape. Around noon, a sheriff’s helicopter circled above as a sheriff’s deputy with a dog combed a nearby field for evidence.

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