Woman dies days after being hit by car in West Englewood

A 59-year-old woman died Monday after being hit by a car a few days earlier in West Englewood on the South Side.

Shanda Monegan, of suburban Flossmoor, was walking about 11:10 a.m. Dec. 12 in the 6900 block of South Ashland Avenue when she was struck by a car, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Monegan was walking west on 69th Street when a 33-year-old man in a Dodge southbound on Ashland hit her, Chicago police said.

She was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition and died of her injuries at 4:26 p.m. Monday, the medical examiner’s office said.

Autopsy results ruled her death an accident, the medical examiner’s office said.