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Woman in wheelchair hit, killed by pickup truck

Updated Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 | 8:31 p.m.

Pedestrian struck

A woman in a wheelchair died Friday night after she was hit by a pickup truck, Metro Police said.

The woman, who was in her 60s, was crossing near Eastern Avenue and Oquendo Road about 6 p.m. when a 1998 Nissan Frontier pickup truck hit her, police said. Police determined the woman was at fault for the accident.

The woman was conscious and breathing when she was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, but she later died at the hospital, police said.

Metro’s fatal crash investigators were being dispatched to the scene. Alcohol was not a factor and the driver has not been charged, police said.

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