A Jamaican doctor was killed in an alleged hit and run accident in Marlyland, United States yesterday (Dec 15).

Dead is 35-year-old Dr. Nadia Dominique Morgan, a rheumatologist at Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore.

According to reports in the Baltimore Sun, Morgan was killed in a hit-and-run crash, involving three vehicles near Green Spring Station in Baltimore County, late Saturday night.

Police have arrested a driver who reportedly fled the scene. The driver’s identity is being withheld, pending charges.

Morgan was a recipient of the 2016 American College of Rheumatology distinguished fellow award, and a faculty member at Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Centre.

Reports are that Morgan was driving a Subaru motor car heading south through a green light at an intersection, when an Acura motor car approached from the west, and struck her vehicle.

Morgan’s car in turn hit a third vehicle that was also going south.

It’s reported that as Morgan’s Subaru became engulfed in flames, the Acura crashed into a fire hydrant.

The Acura driver then reportedly left the area on foot. Morgan died on the scene.

Further reports are that the driver and a passenger of the third vehicle refused medical treatment.

Quick action by the police led to the subsequent arrest of the Acura driver.

Morgan, who was an instructor of medicine in the division of rheumatology, received her doctorate degree at the University of the West Indies in Kingston.

She was the principal investigator in a research project on scleroderma in African Americans.

Her father, Alton Morgan, a real estate attorney in Jamaica, told the Baltimore Sun that the family is still in shock, at her death.

He described her as an exceptional person.