Elizabeth Eckland, 29, of Fort Wayne, was hit by a car while crossing the street in the 2000 block of South Anthony Blvd. early Monday morning. Police found her lying in the grass on the side of the road with blood coming out of her left ear.
Emergency crews told Indiana’s NewsCenter that Eckland’s pupils were fixed and dilated. She was taken to the hospital, where she was still in critical condition as of that evening. The driver of the Chevy Lumina that hit her was not injured.
Witnesses told police the driver was traveling north on S. Anthony when the vehicle struck Eckland and then a light pole. Officers temporarily closed the road between Creighton Ave. and Simons St. for about an hour while they reconstructed the scene.
“The investigators are looking for what the driver was doing at the time of this accident, what the pedestrian was doing,” Officer Raquel Foster told Indiana’s NewsCenter. “Did the pedestrian attempt to cross at an unsafe intersection? Did she use a crosswalk? Did the driver reach down to grab a cigarette? Was the driver on a cell phone?”
Eckland’s friends and family are waiting for word on her condition, and unfortunately, they aren’t the only ones in facing this situation. In 2009, pedestrian fatalities accounted for 7.2 percent of all traffic fatalities in the state of Indiana. Nationally, that percentage is even higher – 12.1 percent of people killed in traffic accidents in the United States were pedestrians.
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These men are lucky. Each year close to 5,000 people lose their lives in commercial vehicles accidents, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
There are many different types of injuries you can sustain in a wreck. Auto accident victims suffer burns, broken bones, whiplash, cuts and bruises, as well as head or brain injuries and amputations. Any of these accident injuries can be difficult to deal with. Not only are your medical bills expensive but there is also a great personal cost involved in being seriously hurt in a SUV crash.
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