An 83-year-old Columbia woman was killed Sunday when she drove her car off an upper level of a retirement community's parking lot, police said.
Police identified the woman as Barbara Schwartz.
Schwartz's 2009 Hyundai Sonata collided with a retaining wall and fell into the lower parking lot of the Vantage House Retirement Community in the 5400 block of Vantage Point Road, Howard County police said. The crash happened just before 4 p.m.
"Preliminary investigation revealed the driver, for an unknown reason at this time, accelerated through the upper level of the parking structure before striking the retaining wall," police said.
The Howard County Police Department's Traffic Enforcement Section is investigating.
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