FREMONT, IN — An Angola woman was hospitalized with critical injuries after police said she was struck by an SUV as she was standing in a Steuben County roadway before dawn Thursday.

The Steuben County Sheriff’s Department says their deputies were called just before 7 a.m. to the 300 block of West State Road 120, west of Fremont, on a report of a suspicious person in the area. A caller said a woman was walking in the middle of the road, screaming and waving at oncoming traffic.

When deputies arrived, a driver said she’d just hit something, possibly a deer, that was in roadway.

Deputies quickly learned that the SUV hit the “pedestrian who appeared to be the subject of the initial 911 call.”

Reports indicate the driver, Kaylee M. Phibbs, age 27 of Bronson, Michigan, was driving eastbound in a Chevrolet Traverse when she struck 28-year-old Sabrina V. Furar of Angola, who was reportedly standing in the travel portion of the roadway. Investigators say Furar was wearing dark clothing, conditions were dark, and the roadway was not lit, the report added.

Furar was taken to Cameron Hospital in Angola, and then airlifted to a Fort Wayne hospital with head and possible internal injuries. Authorities say she was listed in critical condition.

It’s not known why Furar was in the roadway.

The incident remains under investigation.