An unidentified woman riding an adult-size tricycle with her dog in the basket was hit and killed by a suspected drunk driver in Garden Grove, according to a news report.
Garden Grove police said that a woman in her 50s was riding the tricycle east along Chapman Avenue when she was hit by a Santa Ana woman driving a small pickup truck near the Faye Avenue intersection. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene; the dog was taken to an Orange County Animal Services clinic, where it later died.
The driver — Rita Faye McLaughlin, 58 — failed a sobriety test at the scene and was arrested on suspicion of felony DUI.
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