Police seeking witnesses in crash that killed local mother

CARNEGIE, Pa. — Investigators are asking witnesses to come forward with information in Monday's freak deadly traffic accident in Carnegie.

Michelle Gunnell, 47, was killed while walking on the sidewalk near the intersection of East Main and Chestnut streets in Carnegie. Her family saw the breaking news on TV and spent the next four hours trying to find her at local hospitals.

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Allegheny County police are handling the investigation.

Gunnell's family told Channel 11 she was in Carnegie to see a tax service to get help with a misprint on her taxes.

Her family believes she left that tax office and was on her way to a CVS drugstore when a car jumped the curb and hit her while she was walking on the sidewalk.

According to police, the driver, Phillip Milone, 78, had a medical emergency that caused the crash.

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"I guess someone on a bus had a video and you could see the clothing and purse and we pretty much knew then but no one would get back to me, no one would tell me anything," said her daughter, Haley Collins. "This world is going to a darker place without her."

She saw coverage of the accident on Main Street in Carnegie Monday night, knowing that her mother was in the exact same area because they had just talked on the phone.

"She said she was looking for a bathroom so we guess that she walked down the street somewhere to go the bathroom and that was it," Collins said. "It's unbelievable, I'm in shock."

According to police, Gunnell was thrown several feet after being hit by a car that jumped the curb. Collins told Channel 11 the last year has been especially hard.

She lost her father while she was seven months pregnant, and now her mom, who was just seven months into being a grandmother to Collins' baby girl.

"I'm just happy the last thing we said was we love each other," Collins said.

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