Three-Year-Old Girl Struck and Killed by Ambulance

A three-year-old Summit girl died on March 8 after being hit by an ambulance turning into a driveway.

Alyssa Wilbur and her twin brother had been running ahead of their mother on Beauvoir Avenue just outside of Overlook Hospital, when the children's mother shouted for them to stop. Alyssa stopped and then turned to head back to her mother, when she was hit by ambulance turning into the emergency department's driveway.

Judith Wilbur, a hospital employee, had just picked the twins up from daycare and was headed to their nearby home, when the incident occurred. The ambulance, driven by Alexander W. Mendk, Jr., did not have its lights on because it was not on a call. Alyssa fell beneath the ambulance, suffering massive head trauma and dying a half hour later in Overlook's Emergency Department.

No criminal charges will be filed against the driver, and the incident has been declared an accident, although it still remains under investigation. Authorities are waiting for blood test results, which will likely be negative, and would like to determine how Alyssa ended up beneath the vehicle. One possibility is that the area was still icy and slippery from recent bad weather.

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