Woman killed by own car | Chicago Tribune
Natividad Andrea Torres, of Wheeling, suffered fatal head and leg injuries and died this morning at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, a Cook County medical examiner’s office spokesman said.
At 10:38 a.m. Thursday, Torres was backing up her 1998 Ford Contour in the middle lane of westbound Lake Cook Road just east of Milwaukee Avenue on the border of Wheeling and Buffalo Grove, when she fell out of the driver’s side door, Buffalo Grove Police Sgt. Mark Bucalo said.
So many things wrong with this picture:
- backing up in the middle lane of a VERY busy street
- with the car door open while leaning out
- while apparently not wearing a seatbelt
- and somehow jamming the gas pedal when falling
- so that the car kept moving as she was dragged
A friend speculates that she dropped something and was looking for it. The lack of common sense is astounding, however. Was anyone else in the car with her? It sounds too ludicrous to be true, but if she was pushed out, it’s a little more plausible.