Woman killed in hospital parking garage crash
Hospital Safety Insider, March 5, 2015
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An 80-year-old woman was killed March 2 when her car crashed into a parking garage wall at a hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida.
According to a report in the Palm Beach Post, the woman, whose name was not released, crashed her Mini Cooper into a wall at Bethesda Hospital around 6:30 p.m. She died about 40 minutes later, the report said, and she may have suffered a medical episode prior to the crash.
According to the report, police were investigating the accident to determine a cause.
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