Tragedy
Strikes North York Family
Feb 25, 2000 |
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A 65-year-old
woman was killed after she was hit by a car backing out of
a parking spot at a home in the Keele Street and Finch
Avenue area Thursday night.
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Toronto Police
said the victim was with her four-year-old granddaughter at
the time and the vehicle was being driven by her son-in-law.
Police are not releasing names at the request of her family.
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The four-year-old
was knocked to the ground in the incident, but was not seriously
injured.
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The woman was
rushed to Humber River Regional Hospital in North York where
she was pronounced dead, police said. The girl was taken to
the Hospital For Sick Children with non-life threatening injuries.
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Police said the
incident took place at about 6:17 p.m. in a parking area at
9 Four Winds Drive. A 32-year-old man had parked and dropped
off his 65-year-old mother-in-law and her four-year-old granddaughter,
his niece.
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Also in the car
at the time was the driver's two-year-old son. Police said
the two walked behind the car as it was reversing and it ran
over the woman and knocking the girl down.
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Investigators
from the Toronto Police traffic unit are investigating the
incident and are asking any witnesses to call 808-1900.
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Neighbour backed over woman with car
March 19, 2000
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KERRY THOMPSON |
| A tragic scene unfolded
in a North York neighbourhood Friday afternoon as an elderly
woman was run over by a neighbour's vehicle. Marie Meingarten,
76, was outside her home on Ellerslie Avenue, near Bathurst
and Finch Av. around 3 p.m. carrying food and cooking utensils
down a small sidewalk toward the garage to put it in the family
car. But from what investigators can gather, the woman somehow
fell off the walkway and onto her next door neighbour's adjacent
driveway, where she was run over when the driver came out
of his home and failed to see her behind his Chevrolet Suburban.
Sgt. Ken Trotman of traffic services said it appears the man's
vehicle thumped the woman, and then ran over her as he backed
out of the driveway. |
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Paramedics were
called to the scene after the driver, 40, pulled forward in
the driveway and got out to see what he had hit.
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| "It's an unfortunate
accident," Trotman said, adding that no charges will be
laid against the driver of the vehicle. |
Meingarten was
pronounced dead at the scene after succumbing to massive head
and internal injuries.
Neighbours said the woman and her husband were an active couple,
and Meingarten was involved with numerous charities. |
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WOMAN
DIES IN ACCIDENT
Feb 25, 2000 |
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A 65-year-old
woman is dead after being run over by a car in the parking
lot of a North York apartment building last night. The accident
occurred at 6:30 p.m. when the woman, holding her 4-year-old
granddaughter, was struck by a car as it was backing up in
the parking lot near Keele St. and Finch Ave. W. The child
was treated at the scene for minor injuries, but the woman
died after being taken to York Finch Hospital. Police have
not released the victim's name.
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Toronto
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WOMAN
STRUCK AND KILLED
Nov. 21, 2001
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An 82-year-old
Toronto woman was killed yesterday when she was struck by
a car driven by her 83-year-old husband. The incident occurred
at about 2:15 p.m. in a parking lot on Willowdale Ave. near
the couple's home. Police say the woman was standing behind
the car when it was set in motion. Both husband and wife
were taken to SunnyBrook Health Science Center, where she
was pronounced dead and he was treated for shock. The
victim's name has not been released.
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Toronto
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WOMAN
DIES IN PARKING LOT MISHAP
March 27, 2000
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A woman died
after a vehicle backed over her in a mall parking lot.
The woman 67, was walking east across the parking lot of the
Malvern Town Center in Scarborough around 3 p.m. Saturday
when a car hit her while reversing. At the request
of the family, Police are not releasing her name. No charges
have been laid.
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MAN
KILLED BY TRUCK
Oct. 16, 2000 |
| A
31-year-old man was killed Saturday while guiding a dump truck
reversing on Center St. near Bathurst St. in Vaughan. As
it backed up, the man was knocked to the ground and ran him
over, police say. The accident is under investigation, but
the haulage company has been charged with permitting the operation
of an unsafe motor vehicle. Police would not release the name
of the victim or the firm. |
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MAN
KILLED BY LOADER
Feb 24, 2000 |
| A
60-year-old man was killed in an industrial accident at a cement
company in Etobicoke yesterday, the victim was standing in the
rear yard of Ontario Redimix at 21 Goodmark Place, near Highway
27 and Steeles Ave W., When he was struck by a front-end
loader, which was in reverse, and killed instantly. The
name of the victim is being withheld until the family is notified. |
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