SAN DIEGO, CA \u2014 A 21-year-old woman who had been drinking drove a BMW sedan into a park, then struck and severely injured a 5-year-old girl on a scooter in San Diego’s Midway neighborhood Saturday.<\/p>\n
The woman, whose name was withheld, “drove a 2018 BMW 335i onto a closed park pathway at 2500 Laning Road,” according to San Diego Police Department Officer J. Perales. The incident happened around 4:40 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n
In the park, the driver struck a steel bench, then crashed into the child, who was on a scooter. The woman then struck a tree, Perales said.<\/p>\n
The girl was “transported to a local hospital with life-threatening head injuries and may not survive,” the officer said.<\/p>\n
Perales said that alcohol “was a factor in this collision” and that the woman was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n
It was unclear if she suffered any injuries. Her blood-alcohol level was not disclosed.<\/p>\n
San Diego Police Traffic Division will handle the investigation.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the incident was encouraged to call the Traffic Division, or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.<\/p>\n
\u2014 City News Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO, CA \u2014 A 21-year-old woman who had been drinking drove a BMW sedan into a park,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-209948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}