A woman in a wheelchair was killed Saturday afternoon after being hit by a dump truck in a northwest Atlanta neighborhood.
Shell Boyd, 55, was killed outside her Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard home when traffic backed up at a red light at the Fox Street intersection, according to a police report. She was dead at the scene when Atlanta police responded shortly before 4 p.m.
The driver of the truck stayed and cooperated with investigators, according to the report. He said he became stopped in the intersection when the light turned red. When it turned green and traffic began to flow again, he started to move forward and felt a bump, he told police.
He said he got out to check when he heard a noise, and he discovered the woman in the road. Traffic cameras in the area recorded the incident, according to the report.
A police spokesman said Monday that the truck driver is not expected to face charges.
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