13-year-old girl dies days after Gresham crash

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A 13-year-old girl died days after she was seriously injured in a crash Sunday in Gresham on the South Side.

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The girl was pronounced dead Wednesday at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

On June 19, she was riding in a sedan eastbound in the 1600 block of West 87th Street when the vehicle struck the driver’s side of an SUV which was making a turn from Ashland Avenue, Chicago police said.

The girl was taken to a hospital in serious condition at the time, police said. The driver of the sedan and three other passengers were hospitalized.

The driver of the SUV, a 51-year-old man, was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital, police said.

The Major Accidents Unit is investigating.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire & Chicago Sun-Times 2022. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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