A senior is in life-threatening condition after his car crashed in a Calgary lot

A tragedy in the southeast community of Deer Run has sent a Calgary senior to hospital in life-threatening condition.

Sergeant. Calgary Police Service Officer Dylan Harris says the incident began around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of a strip mall near the intersection of Canyon Meadows Drive and Bow Bottom Trail with a “small two-vehicle collision.”

“An elderly lady got out to check on the damage and unfortunately she got hit by her own car,” Harris said.

Darlene Fedina, who was one of the first on the scene, says she was “loading her groceries when she heard a scream and then a screeching sound.”

“I looked to my right and this car was coming into the parking lot, and I had to push my stroller and jump out of the way,” Fedina said. “We ran screaming and unfortunately there was a terrible accident.

He said the victim told him she thought the car was parked, “and then it was gone and ran over her.”

Police are investigating the cause of the incident, but Sgt. Harris said the woman was initially distracted by the minor collision and may have forgotten to park her car.

“Sometimes stress can happen, and then that leads to anxiety and (why that might happen),” Harris said.

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Harris said that while police have been unable to locate witnesses to the initial crash, there are witnesses to the aftermath.

Ed Grijalva was another one of the first people to take the stage. “I was just walking into the bank and saw this woman lying on the ground, so we called an ambulance.”

According to Fedina, she grabbed a blanket and another woman administered first aid until an ambulance arrived. The woman was said to be unconscious at the time.

“Wednesday morning while getting groceries, it was just a scary, weird thing,” Fedina said. “I'm praying that he's okay.”

With files from Global News' Craig Momney

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