Driver has medical event, strikes fatally strikes 2 on foot
Posted December 08, 2021 6:00 am
MIDLOTHIAN, Ill. (AP) - Two people died Wednesday after they were run over suburban Chicago strip mall parking lot by a motorist suffering a medical emergency, police said
An unidentified driver was moving his vehicle through a parking lot when he suffered a 'œmedical event,'ť Midlothian police said.
The vehicle then accelerated and struck several parked vehicles and two elderly pedestrians before striking a Secretary of State's office and coming to a rest, police said.
The driver and both pedestrians were taken to a hospital in critical condition. The two pedestrians - Kathleen Coyne, 75, of Hometown, and Thomas Coyne, 80, of Oak Lawn - were later pronounced dead, the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said.
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