Police have identified the 67-year-old man who was struck while trying to cross Route 10 in Cheshire on Thursday evening as Ji Zheng Cai, 67, of Brooklyn, New York.
Cai the man was crossing Route 10/South Main Street from the Dragon Buffet restaurant to get to a strip mall on the other side when a car traveling southbound hit him around 6:30 p.m., police said.
He was taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury in critical condition and pronounced dead at the hospital on Thursday night.
Police said the car that struck Cai stopped immediately and the driver, Bonnie Winter, of Cheshire, has been cooperating with police.
The driver of the car has been identified as Bonnie Winer. of Cheshire.
The crash is still under investigation by members of the Cheshire Police Traffic Divison
