SINGAPORE — The driver of the car that hit four-year-old Zara Mei Orlic and ran over her body could not have detected the girl's presence as she ran across the road, a coroner has found. In his findings on Zara's death, Coroner Eddy Tham said the girl, who was just 1m tall, was completely obscured by a stationary vehicle in...
Zara Mei Orlic died in hospital on Jan 23 from severe head injuries hours after the accident in Institution Hill in River Valley.SINGAPORE — The driver of the car that hit four-year-old Zara Mei Orlic and ran over her body could not have detected the girl's presence as she ran across the road, a coroner has found.
Coroner Tham said the maid, who was carrying the children's school bags, was holding on to the younger child's hand while Zara walked a short distance ahead."The maid saw oncoming traffic on the second lane but it was too late. By then, the car had collided into Zara and tragically ran over her body," said the coroner.
Though the coroner made no mention of jaywalking in his findings, Traffic Police Station Inspector Muhammad Firdaus Suleiman testified in court earlier that it was not the first time the maid had used this route to jaywalk with the children after picking them up from pre-school. The maid told police she had been reminded by Zara's parents to hold the girl's hand when crossing the road. She said she usually held Zara's hand on the walk home to Aspen Heights condominium but did not do so that day.
After Zara was taken to Singapore General Hospital, doctors told her parents she was severely injured and was unlikely to survive. Their resuscitation efforts remained futile and Zara was pronounced dead at 6.45pm that day.
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