Four-year-old girl killed in hit-and-run collision in Glendale

A 4-year-old girl died Friday evening after being struck by a car in a hit-and-run collision in Glendale, police said.

The preliminary investigation revealed that the girl was on the north side of street in the 1200 block of Wilson Avenue with her parents just before 5 p.m. when she ran across the sidewalk, in between two parked cars and into westbound lanes of traffic, said city spokesman Tom Lorenz.

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She was subsequently struck by an oncoming vehicle, which fled the scene.

The girl was thrown a “significant distance” from the impact, about the length of four cars, into the back end of a parked car, Lorenz said.

“The vehicle traveling westbound I suspect did not see the child and struck the child,” Lorenz said.

The girl was transported to Glendale Adventist Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 5:34 p.m.

The vehicle that fled was described as white or beige, though no further details about the car or the driver were available.

The investigation remains ongoing.

“We’re trying to figure out why the child would run into the street,” Lorenz said.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Glendale police at (818) 548-4911.

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Alene Tchekmedyian, alene.tchekmedyian@latimes.com

Twitter: @atchek