8-Year-Old Bicyclist Succumbs

FORT WAYNE - An 8-year-old girl died Sunday from injuries suffered when a car struck her bicycle Wednesday on CR 525W.

Jacquline R. Egolf, Warsaw, died at Parkview Memorial Hospital, Fort Wayne, from internal injuries.

She was injured when she was riding her bicycle north on CR 525W and into the intersection of Old Road 30, near Atwood.

Witnesses told police Egolf did not stop at the stop sign at the intersection and rode out into the path of a car driven by Andrea M. Baker, 19, Pierceton.

According to police reports, Baker could not stop her car in time to avoid the collision.

Egolf's obituary is on page 3A of today's Times-Union.