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An elderly Smithtown woman died yesterday after a sport utility vehicle hit her, Suffolk police said. The woman, Phyllis Weisz, 78, was standing at the corner of Lawrence Avenue and Main Street in Smithtown about 12:15 p.m., police said. A witness saw Weisz bend over to pick up something just before she was struck by a 2000 Chevrolet Tahoe as it made a right turn onto Main Street from Lawrence Avenue, police said. Weisz suffered head and neck trauma, police said. She was taken to St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, where she was pronounced dead. The driver,...

A 3-year-old boy rode his tricycle across a South Side street and into the path of a sport-utility vehicle, a deadly wreck that played out in front the boy's older sister and other neighborhood children, Chicago Police said Monday night. Authorities were interviewing those children, hoping they can catch up with the driver who stopped, got out of the vehicle after the accident and quickly fled, said Sgt. Robert Cargie. About 7:30 p.m. Monday, the boy and his 9-year-old sister were crossing the 6200 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue, Cargie said. The older child heard the vehicle and moved...