Sep 30, 2009 12:18 pm US/Pacific
2 Girls Hit While Walking To Pleasant Hill School
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Investigators look over the girls' belongings at the crash scene.
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A Vallejo woman who struck two Pleasant Hill Middle School girls with a her car as they were walking to school Wednesday morning may have had the sun in her eyes, Pleasant Hill police Cpl. Matt Kristic said.
The girls, both 13 years old, had been walking on an East Bay Municipal Utility District trail and were crossing Oak Park Boulevard in the crosswalk between Eccleston and Manor avenues when they were hit by a blue Chrysler PT Cruiser shortly before 8 a.m., Pleasant Hill police Lt. Dan Connelly said.
One of the girls was thrown onto the hood of the car, cracking the windshield, Kristic said.
Both girls were conscious when they were transported by ambulance to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.
They sustained serious injuries but are both expected to survive, Connelly said.
Witnesses told police that the girls were in a marked crosswalk when they were hit. The area has signs indicating that there is a trail crossing, and Oak Park Boulevard has a posted speed limit of 25 mph, Kristic said.
The driver of the car remained at the scene and cooperated with police.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation, but so far there is no indication that she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, Connelly said.
Kristic said she was heading east on Oak Park Boulevard when she hit the girls and might have had the sun in her eyes.
Staff members from Pleasant Hill Middle School, which is about a block from where the accident happened, responded to the scene and helped police contact the girls' parents.
Crisis counselors were at the school to help students and teachers cope with what happened and the school's principal was planning to send out an automated phone or email message to let parents of all students at the school know what happened, Dick Nicoll, interim superintendent of the Mount Diablo Unified School District, said.
Because the accident did not happen on the school's campus, the school district was not investigating the incident, Nicoll said.
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