     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON AUGUST 27, 1996 AT 2:35 PM.,  THE DECEASED WAS A  =>  PEDESTRIAN  <=  WHO WAS ATTEMPTING TO CROSS NORTH MIAMI AVENUE, JUST SOUTH OF NW 71ST STREET, FROM EAST TO WEST, WHEN SHE WAS STRUCK BY A 1979 FORD TRUCK THAT WAS SOUTHBOUND ON NORTH MIAMI AVENUE IN THE RIGHT LANE.     
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     FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED THE DECEASED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, WHERE SHE WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 4:21 PM., CONFUSED, IN ACUTE DISTRESS AND GCS=14.  HAD SUSTAINED BILATERAL FEMUR FRACTURES, CLOSED RIGHT WRIST FRACTURE AND EVIDENCE OF HEAD TRAUMA. SHE HAD FLUID IN HER ABDOMEN AND HYPOTENSION, AND WAS TAKEN TO THE OPERATING ROOM IN AN EMERGENCY BASIS.  AN EXPLORATORY LAPARATOMY WAS INITIATED AND IT WAS FOUND THAT SHE HAD AVULSION OF RENAL AND SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VESSELS.  SHE BLED UNCONTROLABLY  AND EXPIRED, DESPITE AGGRESSIVE SURGICAL EFFORTS TO KEEP HER ALIVE. WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 6:35 PM.