Bellevue crash kills 2-year-old on sidewalk

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Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Bellevue crash kills 2-year-old on sidewalk</h1>
                <h2><p>Bellevue officials say that a vehicle involved in a crash at the intersection of Bel-Red Road and NE 140th Street jumped onto a sidewalk and struck a 2-year-old child, who was with her mother. Emergency personnel attempted to help the girl but she died at the scene. Her mother was</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p><a href="http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/11997.htm?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Bellevue officials say</a> that a vehicle involved in a crash at the intersection of Bel-Red Road and NE 140th Street jumped onto a sidewalk and struck a 2-year-old child, who was with her mother. Emergency personnel attempted to help the girl but she died at the scene. Her mother was injured.</p><p>Bellevue officers were still investigating but officials said it appeared that the vehicles collided while one of them was making a left turn. The impact pushed one of the vehicles onto the sidewalk. Both drivers are cooperating with the investigation; drugs and alcohol use is not suspected.</p>
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Bellevue officials say that a vehicle involved in a crash at the intersection of Bel-Red Road and NE 140th Street jumped onto a sidewalk and struck a 2-year-old child, who was with her mother. Emergency personnel attempted to help the girl but she died at the scene. Her mother was injured.

Bellevue officers were still investigating but officials said it appeared that the vehicles collided while one of them was making a left turn. The impact pushed one of the vehicles onto the sidewalk. Both drivers are cooperating with the investigation; drugs and alcohol use is not suspected.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi