A pedestrian was critically injured Thursday night, September 10, after being struck by a vehicle near Germantown Parkway and Walnut Grove Road in Memphis. Memphis police were called shortly after 9:15 p.m. to the 200 block of Germantown Parkway, just south of Walnut Grove Road, according to WMC Action News 5.
Officers found the injured person and the pedestrian was taken to a hospital in critical condition. The driver left instead of remaining at the scene, and Memphis police are treating the matter as an active hit-and-run investigation, Action News 5 reported.
Investigation and Tennessee requirements
No suspect vehicle description has been released. Police also have not announced whether charges are expected, and the pedestrian's condition has not been updated beyond the initial critical designation.
Tennessee Code Annotated § 55-10-101 requires a driver involved in a crash causing injury or death to stop and remain at the scene. The cited statute classifies a violation involving injury as a Class A misdemeanor. It provides for a Class E felony when a driver knew or reasonably should have known that the crash caused a death, with consecutive sentencing possible in certain cases involving vehicular assault, vehicular homicide or aggravated vehicular homicide. The statute also directs drivers to fulfill the requirements in § 55-10-103, according to the Tennessee code text.
Recent pedestrian safety context
The crash occurred less than three weeks after a separate fatality on Walnut Grove Road. On August 24, a female pedestrian was struck and killed in the 6000 block near Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis; the driver in that case remained at the scene, according to a previous Hoodline report.
The latest incident also comes as Memphis continues to record elevated pedestrian danger. Smart Growth America's 2026 “Dangerous by Design” report ranked the Memphis metropolitan area first nationally, with an annual pedestrian fatality rate of 5.5 deaths per 100,000 residents, according to Smart City Memphis. That analysis said pedestrians represented about 27 percent of Memphis traffic fatalities, compared with 16 percent nationally. Separately, Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security data cited by ABC24 recorded 175 pedestrian-involved crashes and 20 pedestrian deaths in Shelby County during the first five months of 2026.
