An Olathe woman died of injuries she suffered early Saturday morning after she was struck by a car in a stretch of Lawrence’s West Sixth Street that is acquiring a dangerous reputation.

Jodi Hudson-Bihler, 25, was struck by a westbound vehicle that fled the scene without stopping in the 2500 block of West Sixth Street, according to the Lawrence Police Department.

The incident occurred shortly before 2 a.m. as patrons were leaving the Cadillac Ranch across the street from the accident scene, police said. Hudson-Bihler was flown by air ambulance to University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., where she died a few hours later.

An investigation led officers to the 500 block of Frontier Road, where they think they found the vehicle that was involved in the incident. A possible suspect also was found, but police wouldn’t say later Saturday whether anyone had been arrested.

Abby Seaser, a Kansas University senior from Fort Collins, Colo., said she was at the scene and saw a car that she said was speeding strike Hudson-Bihler. She then watched as a woman she assumed to be a nurse and a man performed cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.

“I saw it happen and ran across the street,” Seaser said. “They were already trying to resuscitate her. They worked until the police came.”

On Nov. 20, 2004, Matt Thompson, 23, was killed in the same block of Sixth Street when his motorcycle was struck by a pickup truck. A small cross, placed by friends and family, still marks the spot where the accident occurred just outside the entrance to Graystone Apartments, 2512 W. Sixth St.

One day earlier, on Nov. 19, 2004, a Baker University student was walking across Sixth Street in the same block and was struck by a car. Blake Pearson, 23, of Valley Center, was critically injured and flown to University of Kansas Hospital. That accident also happened about 2 a.m.