A teenage girl who had extensive injuries from a hit-and-run in San Jose more than 11 years ago died on Tuesday from her injuries.
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On Jan. 8, 2011, officers responded to Camden Avenue and Bascom Avenue where a pedestrian was hit by a car, according to the San Jose Police Department. Officers reported that a grey or silver sedan was driving eastbound on Camden Avenue and struck a pedestrian walking in a marked crosswalk. Shae Shaw was taken to a local hospital with major injuries, according to KNTV.
The driver fled the scene and was never identified, officers reported.
After the incident, Shaw was in a coma and "subsequently became a quadriplegic," police said. She succumbed to her injuries and died on Tuesday in hospice care.
"She was fun, she was beautiful, she was just becoming a young woman, I didn't get a chance to see much because she left," her mother Cari Shaw told KNTV. "She passed from kidney failure, had it not been for a traumatic brain injury, she probably could have told us right, but it didn’t happen that way."
This is the 16 Pedestrian fatality and the 28 traffic death of 2022. The city is adding more cameras to dangerous intersections as part of a pilot program to help police identify cars involved in crashes, the news station reported.
The investigation will be reopened and anyone with information is asked to contact the San Jose Police Department's Traffic Investigations Unit at (408)277-4654.
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