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A woman in her 80s died in hospital Wednesday afternoon after she was crushed between her own and another car in a Beechwood Avenue parking lot.

The woman was loading her groceries into her trunk at the Metro at the intersection of Springfield Road when a second vehicle struck her at about 3:15 p.m. Paramedics found her with severe trauma to both legs.

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She was taken to the hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead.

The male driver of the other was interviewed by police. Charges had not been laid Wednesday evening.

A team from the Ottawa police collisions investigation unit was mapping and photographing the scene behind a ring of police tape as after-work shoppers streamed into the grocery store.

They were also preparing to notify the woman’s next of kin, with a social worker from the police victim-crisis unit on hand to learn what had happened.

One corner of the back bumper of the woman’s red Toyota Corolla was dented, a grocery bag still lay on the ground and a cloth covered what appeared to be a pool of blood.

There was also blood on a corner of the back bumper of a silver Lexus sedan.

“It’s tragic,” said shopper Paul Roache, who lives nearby. “Telling her family — she went to the grocery store and now she’s dead.”

“The poor lady,” said septuagenarian Irene Gauthier. “How come an accident right here?”