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NY Woman Who Left Car to Tend Child Hit, Killed on I-95: Police

A New York woman who left her vehicle to tend to a child in the backseat on Interstate 95 was struck and killed by another car, Connecticut State Police said. 

Emma Torres, 31, got out of the vehicle Saturday night in Bridgeport in the southbound lane, troopers said. Torres, of Mamaroneck, New York, was then sideswiped by an oncoming vehicle.

Torres was taken to Bridgeport Hospital where she later died of her injuries. No one else was hurt.

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