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An elderly woman was scheduled to be charged Thursday with second-degree recklessly endangering safety after attempting to run over her daughter with a car.

Judge Ramona Gonzalez issued a $1,000 bench warrant for Phyllis Prokes Oct. 3.

Prokes, 85, of La Crosse, is accused of speeding up her car and deliberately trying to hit her daughter as she biked across a crosswalk on Copeland Avenue near Festival Foods.

According to the criminal complaint:

Prokes was driving northbound on Aug. 24 when her daughter and three friends were crossing the street on their bikes while the yellow pedestrian crossing lights were flashing. The victim claims Prokes’ vehicle cut her off and was just 2 inches shy of hitting her, according to the criminal complaint.

One of the victim’s friends confirmed the vehicle sped up and swerved quickly toward the victim, according to the complaint.

The victim told her friends the vehicle looked like her mother’s. A few days later the victim called her aunt, and Prokes, who was at the aunt’s home at the time, told the aunt to tell her daughter that “I tried to run her over on Saturday.”