A 3-year-old girl died following a head-on collision Saturday in Dolton which left her 4-year-old sister and the driver of the vehicle they were in hospitalized, according to a Dolton official.
Leyla Nesbitt died at 11:34 a.m. Sunday at Comer Children’s Hospital in Chicago, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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The collision occurred after 5 p.m. near the intersection of 138th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, and a male family friend was driving the girls home, according to victim advocate and Dolton Trustee Andrew Holmes.
Holmes said Monday that he was on the scene of Saturday’s crash and tried to comfort the family while they were at the hospital.
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“The family is not doing well at all,” he said. “This is one little, beautiful angel that has been taken away.”
Holmes said he was unsure as of Monday what the condition of Leyla’s sister, A’Miya, was. She is also at Comer.
“She’s feeling a lot of pain,” he said.
The male friend who was driving the vehicle the girls were in remained hospitalized as of Monday, Holmes said.
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Dolton police did not respond to messages Monday seeking details of the crash. Holmes said a person allegedly involved in the crash was in police custody.
The trustee said that the vehicle the girls were in was traveling south on Cottage Grove Avenue when the second vehicle “which was traveling at a high rate of speed” collided with it.
He said the vehicle the girls were in was knocked off the street and bounced into a fence.
Holmes said that police accident investigators had been on the scene reconstructing what happened.
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Holmes said he accompanied the girls’ family to the hospital and “I tried to show support for them, pray with them.”
“I can’t tell them things are going to be all right,” he said. “They are never going to be all right because they lost their little angel.”
mnolan@tribpub.com
