Saturday, August 4, 2012

Girl killed as pickup smashes through parking lot

Diana Ballard via KXAS

Firefighters at the scene of an accident in a parking lot in Lake Worth, Texas, on Saturday.

By Reginald Hardwick and Ken Kalthoff, NBCDFW.com

A 7-year-old-girl is dead and five other people injured after the driver of a pickup truck reportedly hit several vehicles in Lake Worth, Texas, on Saturday afternoon.

It happened at about 2 p.m. at the parking lot of the Target and Ross stores in the 6300 block of Lake Worth Avenue.

NBC 5's Ken Kalthoff was one of the first reporters on the scene. He said six people were hit in the parking lot. Two adults and four children are hurt. One of the children, a 7-year-old girl, later died. 


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Witnesses told NBC 5 the truck also hit two other vehicles. 

The driver was 84-year-old Vincent Martinez. His daughter told NBC 5's Ken Kalthoff that Martinez is diabetic and must have gone into diabetic shock. Martinez was also taken to the hospital.

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"He's a diabetic and he's been diabetic for several years," said Ester Zenteno, Martinez's daughter. "He does take insulin and I can't say 100 percent that he took it this morning. I wasn't with him this morning, but he's real good about it. I'm assuming that his sugar went out of control."

The Lake Worth Fire Department and several other emergency crews are on the scene.

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