Crash That Killed Mother, Injured Girl Near LA School Possibly Due to ‘Medical Emergency’: Police
LOS ANGELES—A crash that killed a woman and critically injured her 6-year-old daughter near Hancock Park Elementary School “appears to be a tragic accident,” police said April 26, adding that the driver who struck them in a crosswalk may have suffered an unspecified medical emergency.
The woman in her 30s was walking in a crosswalk with the girl around 8 a.m. Tuesday near Ogden Drive and Colgate Avenue in the mid-Wilshire area when they were struck by a southbound pickup that continued south and crashed into an apartment building. The woman, who has not been identified, died at the scene. The girl—a first-grader at Hancock Park Elementary—was hospitalized in critical condition, police said….