Elderly Woman Dies After Being Hit By Car In Woodstock

WOODSTOCK, GA — An 85-year-old woman died Wednesday afternoon from injuries she sustained after she was hit by a vehicle in Woodstock. Officers with the Woodstock Police Department were dispatched around 12:18 p.m. May 2 to the crash on Trickum Road north of Ga. 92.

According to the Cherokee Sheriff's Office, a vehicle driven by Aaron Miller, 20, of Woodstock, was traveling northbound on Trickum Road when he saw a pedestrian in the road.

When he swerved to miss the pedestrian in the road, he drove onto the sidewalk and struck Diana Scott. The person Miller was trying to avoid hitting was a relative of the victim, who was also a Woodstock resident, said Cherokee Sheriff's Office spokesperson Sgt. Marianne Kelley.

"The pedestrians were not utilizing a crosswalk as they crossed Trickum Road," Sgt. Kelley added, noting the pedestrians were trying to cross the road in the vicinity of the Publix shopping center and Wendy's.

Scott was transported to an area hospital where she was pronounced dead. Woodstock police reached out to the sheriff's office Traffic Enforcement Unit to investigate the cause of the collision. No charges have been filed at this time.

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