Crime & Safety
Michigan Woman Dies After Being Crushed At Tollbooth
A 40-year-old woman did not make it after she was wedged between her car and a tollbooth last weekend.
MICHIGAN — A Michigan woman has died from injuries she sustained after she was crushed by her own vehicle at a tollbooth, reports say.
State Police say 40-year-old Luciana Ortiz of Otsego, Michigan, died Wednesday, four days after she was injured after dropping her debit card while trying to pay at a tollbooth in Hammond near the Indiana-Illinois state line, the Associated Press reported.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that police say that when Ortiz opened her door to pick up the card on Dec. 8, her sport-utility vehicle lurched forward as she stuck a leg outside the SUV. Her vehicle continued moving, slowly wedging Ortiz against a tollgate until she lost consciousness.
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A state trooper eventually rescued Ortiz and she was airlifted to a suburban Chicago hospital, WDIV reported.
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