A 25-year-old Long Island woman survived a car crash early this morning, but was fatally struck by a driver when she went back to her car to get her belongings.
Police say the incident happened just before 4 a.m. Sunday when Brittany Leith, a mother of a 3-year-old girl, struck the center median on the Southern State Parkway at Exit 36. Her car flipped over, but she was able to climb out via a cracked window with help from passersby, and made it safely to the shoulder of the road.
However, she then apparently returned to her vehicle before cops arrived "despite warnings from the motorists who had assisted her," according to Newsday. While she was gathering her things, she was struck and killed by another passing driver.
The grandmother said Brittany and Zoey had been living with her since the young mom got divorced. Brittany was on her way home from a friend’s home when she was killed, the grandmother said.
Anna Leith says she thinks the people who were on the scene with Brittany should have done more to keep her from running back into traffic.
“I was told someone was there to help her out of the car, but she could have hit her head and been out of it,” the grandmother said. “Somebody should have held on to her and not let her run back into the street.
“This should not have happened,” she added.
The parkway was shut down for more than seven hours as police investigated both accidents. They finally reopened the roadway around 11:30 a.m.
Via: http://nypost.com/2015/11/29/woman-survives-car-crash-dies-trying-to-retrieve-her-things/
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