Overview
- Security footage reviewed by responding officers shows the driver parked behind a service truck, handed off a dog, then accelerated into Mejia and struck the truck.
- The collision occurred around 11:40 a.m. on December 19 outside Asbury Plaza at 750 N. Dearborn Street next to the Dearborn protected bike lane.
- Mejia was transported to Northwestern Hospital and was pronounced dead at 12:21 p.m., according to the Illinois Traffic Crash Report.
- The driver, described as a 62-year-old woman in a Porsche sedan, was cited for failure to exercise due care for a pedestrian and taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital for DUI testing.
- Investigators have not determined whether the protected bikeway or the building’s curved driveway played a role, and the death is logged in Streetsblog Chicago’s 2025 fatality tracker.