A 16-year-old Lansdowne girl was struck and killed by a car while attempting to cross Annapolis Road near the Ohio Avenue intersection at 4:48 p.m. Thursday.

Bridget Catherine Herold, a junior at Lansdowne High School, was transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center where she was pronounced dead at 5:51 p.m., police said.

Herold was crossing Annapolis Road in an easterly direction only a few blocks from her home on the 4400 block of Fenor Road, police said, when the right front corner of a southbound-traveling 2011 Toyota RAV4 struck her.

The 19-year-old driver from Glen Burnie stayed at the scene, and police consider the incident pedestrian error.

Baltimore County Public Schools spokesman Charles Herndon said trauma counselors will be made available to students, faculty and staff at Lansdowne High School.

Kenneth Miller, the first-year principal at Lansdowne High School, said he did not know Herold well, but many at the school did.

"A specific letter was read to the kids telling them about the loss and what we can do to help support them," Miller said of how the students were informed of Herold's death. "They took the news real hard. Some of them knew before school. Some were just finding out."