COLUMBUS – A woman waiting at an East Side COTA bus shelter was reportedly looking at her phone when a car crashed onto the sidewalk and collapsed the shelter, killing her.
UPDATE: This article has been up[dated to include the name of the victim.
A witness told The Columbus Dispatch that Joan Miller, 54, was sitting at the bus stop at E. Broad Street and James Road at about 3:45 p.m., looking at her phone, when police say a Land Rover collided with a Lincoln Town Car, pushing it into the bus shelter which collapsed on Miller.
According to police, the Land Rover, driven by 18-year-old Owen Wilson of Bexley, and the Lincoln, driven by 18-year-old Nermeen Murib of Grove City were both traveling eastbound on Broad Street when they tried to trying to pull to the side of the street to make way for a fire truck responding to an auto accident with injuries at Broad Street and Ashburton Road with lights and siren deployed when Wilson’s SUV hit Murib’s car from behind, pushing it to the south side of Broad Street east of James Road and into the bus shelter.
Both men were taken to area hospitals.
The accident is still under investigation.