Police are investigating two auto-pedestrian crashes Tuesday — one that killed a 5-year-old child in Sandy, and another that killed a woman and critically injured a child in Salt Lake City.
The 5-year-old in Sandy was hit by a postal truck on a tree-lined cul-de-sac called Blossomwood Circle, at about 9300 South. Police said the driver stayed on scene and is cooperating with officers, who don’t believe speed or impairment contributed to the crash.
The 5-year-old had not been identified as of Tuesday afternoon. No further details were immediately available.
Salt Lake City police also were investigating a separate fatal crash Tuesday near 900 East and 1700 South, in which a woman was killed and a child was wounded. According to a news release, a vehicle left the roadway at about 11:30 a.m. and struck the pair on a sidewalk.
The woman died on the way to the hospital, and the child was in critical condition as of Tuesday afternoon. The driver who hit them drove away after the crash, police said, but a suspect was later arrested.
The woman and child were not identified as of Tuesday afternoon. Neither was the suspect.
That wreck marked the 11th traffic-related death in Salt Lake City this year, and the Sandy wreck marked the most recent in a string of area crashes that have killed children.
On Monday, two 3-year-old boys were killed instantly when a man whom police said was high on meth crashed into an Eagle Mountain horse stable at about 100 mph, striking the children as they were playing. The 25-year-old driver suffered minor injuries and was arrested, police said.
Last week, a driver fatally struck a 13-year-old boy in a West Jordan crosswalk, then left the scene, police said. The child, Eli Mitchell, was riding his bike at the time of the wreck. Police later arrested the 50-year-old suspected hit-and-run driver.
On April 18, 14-year-old Patrick Lawrence was struck and killed by a TRAX train in Sandy while on his way to school. The Jordan High School student was with his bicycle when he went beneath a railroad crossing gate near 8751 South and 160 East and was hit, a UTA spokesperson said, calling the boy’s death a “tragedy.”
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