Shawnet Earle, age 30, of Hempstead, was driving a 2020 Mitsubishi Outlander in Wheatley Heights eastbound on Main Avenue at North 26th Street, when the vehicle struck a female pedestrian walking along Main Avenue at approximately 12:10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 6, Suffolk County Police said.

The victim, Blanche Pope, age 60, of Wheatley Heights, was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.

An adult passenger in the Mitsubishi was transported to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore for treatment of minor injuries, and the other adult passenger was not injured, police said.

Earle was arrested for DWI. She was held overnight at the First Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Friday.    

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