By Eric Boynton
TEMPLE - A woman is dead after she was hit by a car while walking down the highway.
It happened just after 11 P.M. on Friday night in the 4700 block of Highway 317.
The unidentified woman was walking down the side of the highway; then a car driving south on the highway struck her.
She was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
The driver and the passenger of the car were taken to Scott & White Memorial Hospital, to be evaluated for non-life threatening injuries.
The cause of the accident is still under investigation.
The name of the woman is not being released at this time in order to notify family members.
