A good Samaritan flagged down police after witnessing a vehicle slam into electric scooter, killing its 15-year-old passenger and injuring the 13-year-old driver in South Shore Saturday night, police said.
Chicago police were flagged down by a witness who saw a vehicle hit the right side of the scooter carrying Violet Harris, 15, and the 13-year-old girl about 8:30 p.m. in the 2800 block of East 77th Street, according to a police report obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
A fire department ambulance rushed Harris, found lying unresponsive in the street, to the University of Chicago Medical Center with severe head and chest trauma as the scooter driver, a 13-year-old girl, got up after the crash and walked west on 77th Street to Jackson Park Hospital.
The 13-year-old who suffered lacerations, was then transferred to the University of Chicago Medical Center, according to the report.
Harris, whose relatives couldn’t be reached, was pronounced dead at 8:56 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy is scheduled.
Surveillance video also captured the crash, and the vehicle that hit them and kept going southbound along South Exchange Avenue, the report said.
No one is in custody and detectives are investigating.
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