The tragic accident happened in /*Bellmore*/ at 10:30 p.m. Saturday night.
Police say by all accounts the weather was terrible, but the woman chose to walk for more than a mile in the torrential downpour, and was struck and killed in the middle of /*Merrick Road*/. The officer was on routine patrol.
The woman was returning to her home, and was identified by police as 63-year-old /*Sherry Lang*/.
Mrs. Lang who police say ignored a traffic light was struck while crossing a four-lane road in the middle of the block.
Lang worked as a secretary at the local elementary school where she was well-known and well-regarded.
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