She passed out from drinking prone in the street in the wee hours, and the driver was drinking who ran over her, and the son’s driver also drinking? You can’t make this stuff up, but tragic all the way around, if I read this right.
WEST ALLIS, Wis. - A 45-year-old woman was hit and killed by a car Sunday morning in West Allis.
Police said 45-year-old Mary Moore was struck and killed while lying in the street about 1 a.m. Sunday. The driver that hit Moore fled from the scene but is now under arrest.
WISN 12 news spoke with the woman who called 911. Wendy Muth was watching a movie shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday when she heard a loud noise outside.
“I looked out and saw a body laying there,” she said. “And I grabbed the phone to call 911. And of course, they were asking me, ‘Are they breathing.’ I said, ‘They’re not moving, so should I go out and see?’ And you know — she — the person was gone already. Hope to never see anything like it again.”
Police said the driver was arrested near the scene at 81st Street and Lapham Avenue Sunday morning.
“It’s a quiet neighborhood,” Muth said. “But people do speed down this street constantly. You’ve got to watch.”
Around 5:30 a.m., Moore’s 22-year-old son, Thomas Olson, died in a car crash as he rushed to the hospital to see his mother. Olson was a passenger in a car that struck a parked dump truck and overturned near 90th Street and National Avenue.
The driver, arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, and two other passengers suffered non-life threatening injuries.