A three-year-old girl waiting at bus stop in Orange with her parents has been killed after a car crashed into the bus shelter, according to a news report.
The Orange Police Department said that Savannah Carter of Anaheim and her parents were at the bus stop on Tustin Street at Taft Avenue when the driver of a Kia Soul drove over a curb and into the bus shelter. Savanna was taken to Western Medical Center – Santa Ana, where she was pronounced dead. Her father is in a medically induced coma, but is expected to survive.
Investigators said the Kia Soul driver told them he had been cut off by another vehicle while traveling south on Taft, forcing him to swerve into oncoming traffic, jump the curb and crash into the bus shelter.
Authorities are asking anyone with information about this incident to contact the Orange Police Department at 714-744-7444.
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