     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED WAS A RETIRED ELDERLY FEMALE WHO LIVED ALONE AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS. ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1996, SHE WAS IN THE AREA OF FLAGLER STREET AND 9TH AVENUE WHEN SHE WAS CROSSING FLAGLER FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. AFTER CROSSING FOUR LANES OF TRAFFIC SHE WAS STRUCK BY A VAN THAT WAS TRAVELING WEST BOUND.  MIAMI EMERGENCY RESCUE UNITS WERE SUMMONED AND RESPONDED, FOUND HER CONSCIOUS BUT INCOMPREHENSIVE. SHE WAS TREATED AT THE SCENE FOR POSSIBLE CLOSED HEAD TRAUMA AND LEG FRACTURES, THEN TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. 
     UPON ARRIVAL AT THE HOSPITAL SHE HAD ALTERED MENTAL STATUS, DISORIENTED BUT COOPERATIVE. THERE WAS A LOWER LEFT EYE HEMATOMA WITH A LACERATION. X-RAYS AND CAT-SCANS WERE DONE AND REVEALED   RIGHT TIBIA AND FIBULA FRACTURES, HER BRAIN SCAN SHOWED A LEFT SUBDURAL HEMATOMA.  
     ON OCTOBER 4, 1996, SHE WAS DISCHARGED TO SOUTH POINT MANOR NURSING HOME WHERE SHE REMAINED UNTIL SHE HAD AN EPISODE ON NOVEMBER 4, 1996, SUFFERED A CARDIAC ARREST AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL WHERE SHE EXPIRED AT 3:15 PM.  
     