FW Girl Struck By SUV, Critically Injured
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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - An 11-year-old girl was critically hurt Saturday morning after a vehicle struck her on the 1300 block of Barrel Run in Fort Worth.
The child was taken to Cook Chrildren's Medical Center by a helicopter ambulance with head and leg injuries.
The child was walking on the sidewalk when the driver of a Ford Expedition lost control and struck the child and a tree before crashing through a brick wall around 9:45 a.m.
Witnesses told the Fort Worth Fire Department that the female driver of the Ford Expedition hit one or more vehicles on a neighborhood street, then turned into the 14200 block of Sendera Ranch Boulevard on the wrong side of the four-lane, divided road.
The adult female driver of the vehicle was transported by ground ambulance for evaluation; her injuries were non-life threatening.
No identities have been released. Fort Worth PD Traffic Investigation Unit investigated the incident.
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