A 21-year-old woman who had been drinking drove a BMW sedan into a park, then struck and severely injured a 5-year-old girl on a scooter in the Midway neighborhood on Saturday afternoon.

The woman “drove a 2018 BMW 335i onto a closed park pathway at 2500 Laning Road,” according to the San Diego Police Department . The incident happened around 4:40 p.m. Saturday.

In the park, the driver struck a steel bench, then crashed into the child, who was on a scooter. The woman then struck a tree, an officer said.

The girl was “transported to a local hospital with life-threatening head injuries and may not survive.”

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