Police Identify Victim In Fatal Oak Lawn Pedestrian Accident - UPDATED

Updated, 4:34 p.m. Jan. 8 -- Anna Kreja, the young woman identified as the victim in Wednesday’s fatal pedestrian accident, was a 2013 graduate of Mother McAuley High School.

School spokeswoman Jennifer Busk described Kreja as an “incredibly talented artist evident in all her work.”

“The entire McAuley family is saddened by the new of her death,” Busk continued. ”Anna was a McAuley girl through and through - intelligent, articulate, kind, and tremendously creative.”

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office also attributed the cause of Kreja’s death to injuries related to the crash, according to an autopsy performed on Thursday.

Original story -- The 19-year-old woman who was killed in Wednesday’s fatal pedestrian accident in Oak Lawn has been identified.

Police say that Anna Kreja, of the 11000 block of South Keating Avenue, was struck and killed crossing in an easterly direction across Cicero Avenue near 110th Street around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Division Chief Thomas Simon, of the Oak Lawn Police Department, said that traffic investigators believe that Kreja may have been crossing busy Cicero Avenue against a green light.

Kreja was hit by a 53-year-old woman driving a 2005 Cadillac that was traveling northbound on Cicero. Police say that Kreja was struck about ten feet north of the 110th Street crosswalk.

“We don’t believe that the driver [of the Cadillac] will be cited,” Simon said. “[The driver] had the green light and was legally going down Cicero.”

The 19-year-old woman was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center where she died a short time later.

Police have also located the driver of a second vehicle that was being sought. Witnesses told police at the accident scene on Wednesday that a man driving a dark blue Ford Explorer may also have been involved.

Simon said that police have since determined that the driver of the Ford Explorer was not involved.

Police are still asking members of the public who may have witnessed the accident to call the Oak Lawn Police Traffic Unit at 708-499-7789.