Monday, May 26, 2008

17-year-old cited in toddler hit-and-run on South Side

From Monday's Chicgao Tribune...

17-year-old cited in toddler hit-and-run on South Side
Tribune staff
report
6:57 PM CDT, May 26, 2008

A 17-year-old girl has been cited in an accident that injured a 2-year-old
boy on the South Side over the Memorial Day weekend, police said Monday.After
the accident Sunday afternoon, Shaquita Finley of the 500 block of West 87th
Street was cited with striking a pedestrian, driving without a license or
insurance, failure to reduce speed and failure to use due care for a pedestrian
in a roadway, police said.

Finley was driving a 1997 Saturn that struck the
2-year-old boy at about 4:30 p.m. in the 9100 block of South Eggleston Avenue,
said Officer JoAnn Taylor, a police spokeswoman.The boy was hospitalized and his
condition stabilized at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital. The extent of his injuries was not known by police.

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Finley drove away after the crash, but she later
turned herself in at the Morgan Park District, Taylor said.

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