A 55-year-old woman died Thursday after she was struck by an SUV while trying to cross a street in northwest suburban Mount Prospect.
Joni Beaudry, of Mount Prospect, was attempting to cross Central Road at Weller Lane using the crosswalk about 9:41 a.m. when she was struck by a black Lexus SUV driven by a 55-year-old Elk Grove Village woman, according to Mount Prospect police.
Beaudry activated the crossing signal and began to cross when eastbound traffic in the curb lane of Central Road stopped. The driver of the SUV, Hanna Burzynksa, did not stop while driving in the eastbound median lane and struck Beaudry, police said.
Beaudry was taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where she was pronounced dead at 6:45 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office
Burzynska was cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, police said.
Eastbound lanes of traffic on Central Road were closed for about five hours while the initial investigation took place, police said. The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Mount Prospect Police Department at (847) 870-5656.
