101-year-old Arizona woman hit by car dies after clinging to life for week
Jan 10, 2018, 12:20 PM | Updated: 12:50 pm
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PHOENIX — A 101-year-old northern Arizona woman who was hit by a car in store parking lot in Prescott Valley has died in a Phoenix hospital.
Esther Dorsch passed away Tuesday, Prescott Valley police posted to Facebook, nearly a week after she was run over by an 83-year-old woman. The driver told authorities that she didn’t see Dorsch, who was walking toward the grocery store. The woman in the car was turning left into a lane at the Glassford Hill Road shopping site.
Dorsch was trapped underneath the SUV and dragged several feet before the driver, identified as Sandra Nagy, stopped.
Units from Central Arizona Fire and Medical had to pull Dorsch out from under the vehicle on Jan. 3.
“When I walked out, there were like two fire trucks, five police cars, and somebody said that somebody was hurt in the parking lot,” another shopper, Betty Donald, a friend of Dorsch, told the Daily Courier.
Dorsch was first taken to Yavapai Regional Medical Center, then flown to a hospital in the Valley.
Police said they were still investigating.
