UPDATED 3:56 P.M.
PEORIA, Ill. – Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood is identifying the victim in a fatal car-versus-pedestrian accident in Central Peoria Friday morning during a round of severe weather, and is explaining more about why the victim was out.
Harwood says an autopsy on Shirley Meagher, 100, showed she died of multiple blunt force trauma injuries.
The accident happened near University and Hudson around 7:45 a.m. Friday.
Harwood says according to Meagher’s daughter, she would attend a sunrise church service every morning, then walked from her Sheridan Road apartment to local fast food drive-throughs to collect dropped change she would donate to Saint Jude, and had been doing this for the last 12 years.
Police have not identified the driver of the car that hit Meagher, but that person is said to have been cooperating with officers and showed no impairment.
Officers say Meagher appeared to have her head down and was carrying an umbrella when she entered the road.
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PEORIA, Ill. – An elderly woman is dead after she was struck by a vehicle during heavy storms Friday morning.
Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says the incident happened around 7:45 a.m. near the intersection of University and Hudson in Peoria. The woman’s age and name have not been released.
The driver of the car remained at the scene and was cooperative with police.
Harwood says he’s in the process of notifying the victim’s family.
More information is expected from the coroner later on Friday.
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