The driver who killed a pedestrian crossing Ashby Avenue in South Berkeley in late July was delivering food for DoorDash when the collision took place, according to a lawsuit filed this month in Alameda County Superior Court.
The driver, identified in court papers as Helen Dale, was eastbound on Ashby when she struck 54-year-old Latitia Austin Ahmad near Newbury Street on July 26 shortly before 10 p.m. Ahmad’s two adult children, 25-year-old Delvonnia Cooper and 21-year-old Sharif Ahmad, were also at the scene. That night, they had planned to visit Latitia’s brother, who has a shop on the south side of Ashby not far from Newbury.
The family has said Cooper rushed to her mother’s side while Sharif Ahmad tried to keep the driver at the scene. But she drove away, witnesses said, hitting Latitia a second time and also striking Cooper. Police said the driver left the area because a crowd was forming then called from a safe location nearby to report her part in the crash. As of this week, police have not yet made a ruling as to the cause of the collision, citing the ongoing investigation.
Mark Webb, the family’s attorney, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of Cooper and her brother naming DoorDash as well as Dale, a 24-year-old Oakland woman, responsible for Ahmad’s death. Cooper suffered serious injuries and “may not be able to walk again,” the attorney said. Webb said Dale told her insurance company she was picking up a DoorDash delivery at the time of the crash.
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