Maid disobeyed and jaywalked with girl, 4, in fatal accident

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The maid who was with a four-year-old girl who was killed in a car accident in January had jaywalked with her in River Valley,...

A coroner’s inquiry into the death of Zara Mei Orlic was held on June 26, after she had died on Jan 23 when a car hit her at Institution Hill at River Valley.Zara had suddenly appeared between two stationary vehicles parked along Institution Hill, which is a two-lane road, when a car driving from the opposite direction hit her.He said the maid, who was holding the hand of Zara’s two-year-old sister, was three steps behind Zara and yelled for the car to stop when the collision occurred.

She suddenly felt that her car had hit and gone over something when she checked her rearview mirror and realised she had hit a child, said SI Firdaus.The driver was not named at the hearing, with SI Firdaus only referring to her as the “involved party”. SI Firdaus said it was not the first time the maid had used this route to jaywalk with the children after picking them up from preschool.

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