Girl dies after elderly driver hit child cyclists: French prosecutor
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Bordeaux: A 10 year old girl died Friday of her injuries two days after an elderly driver hit her and other children who were cycling to a park in wes...
Bordeaux: A 10-year-old girl died Friday of her injuries two days after an elderly driver hit her and other children who were cycling to a park in western France, a prosecutor said.
An 83-year-old woman driving on the wrong side of the road hit a group of 12 children aged seven to 11 on Wednesday in the coastal city of La Rochelle as they headed from a leisure centre to the park with two supervisors, officials and an eyewitness said.
The head-on collision injured seven of the children, including three seriously, the prosecutor's office said.
The worst injured, a 10-year-old girl, was declared brain dead on Thursday and her death was confirmed early Friday morning, La Rochelle prosecutor Arnaud Laraize said.
She had been airlifted to the city of Tours for treatment.