Girl Left with Life-Threatening Injuries and May Not Survive
Tragedy struck on Saturday, September 6, around 4:40 pm when a 21-year-old woman driving a BMW sedan entered a pedestrian pathway near the entrance to Naval Base Point Loma, hit a steel bench, and then struck a 5-year old girl riding a scooter before crashing into a tree.
The girl was left with life-threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital with severe head injuries and may not survive, authorities said.
As alcohol was a factor in the collision, the driver was arrested at the scene, located near 2500 Laning Road.
The department’s Traffic Division was handling the investigation. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the department’s Traffic Division or San Diego County Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.
Interestingly, all 3 news sources that we checked called the area of the incident “the Midway neighborhood.” The area is really just outside Liberty Station in Point Loma.
The incident occurred less than a month after another fatality due to cars in the area. There was a hit-and-run death of a pedestrian late Aug. 8 at about 11:30 p.m. in the 4400 block of North Harbor Drive near Laning Road, according to Harbor Police.
Responding officers began lifesaving measures on the pedestrian, later identified by the San Diego County medical examiner’s office as Mandy Booth, 51, but she died at the scene.
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