Accident in Zurich's old town Driver hits sidewalk, kills senior citizen and crashes into house
Accident in Zurich's old town: a car left the road, hit a pedestrian on the sidewalk and killed the senior citizen.
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- A car has run over a pedestrian in Zurich's old town.
- The car left the road, hit the sidewalk and then slammed into the store front.
A car left the road near the Rudolf Brun Bridge and hit the sidewalk on Mühlegasse before crashing into the front of a store.
According to current information, a woman was driving her white car down Mühlegasse in the direction of Limmatquai shortly before 10.30 a.m., writes the city police. Below Niederdorfstrasse, she collided with a pedestrian on the right-hand sidewalk and then drove to the left, across the road and came to a standstill next to a store window.
The pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries and had to be taken to hospital in a critical condition by the ambulance service of Zurich Protection & Rescue. Unfortunately, she succumbed to her serious injuries there only a short time later. The driver and her passenger were uninjured.
The circumstances of the accident are unclear and are now being investigated by the Zurich city police and the Zurich-Limmat public prosecutor's office. The technical accident service of the Zurich city police and specialists from the Zurich Forensic Institute have been called in to provide comprehensive photographic, dimensional and material evidence.