An 18-year-old woman succumbed to her injuries after being struck by a vehicle while riding a scooter in Sacramento, an incident that occurred yesterday evening near the intersection of Franklin Boulevard and Cosumnes River Boulevard, as KCRA reports.
The Sacramento Police Department received reports of the crash at around 6:15 p.m., subsequently responding to the scene where the young woman who had been operating the scooter was critically injured; sadly, the Sacramento Fire Department confirmed that after being transported to a local hospital, the woman did not survive, authorities noted that the driver involved had stayed at the location of the accident and was cooperating with the investigation thus far no signs point to the involvement of drugs or alcohol.
This fatal accident prompts a renewed focus on the shared responsibility that comes with navigating city streets, "It's a shared responsibility, both our motorists and our bicyclists, pedestrians, scooterists," Sacramento Police Department's Anthony Gamble stressed in an interview with CBS News Sacramento, "You have to be aware of what's going on around you, and it's truly a shared responsibility. We want to take care of each other."
As city streets mourn yet another loss—a UC Davis resident physician was also recently killed under similar circumstances while on an electric scooter in east Sacramento. Police continue to investigate the exact sequence of events that led to this latest tragedy and the road where the accident took place has since been reopened to traffic.
