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Pedestrian Killed At Natick Shopping Center

NATICK (CBS) -- One pedestrian was killed and several were injured after they were struck by a car driven by an elderly woman in a Natick shopping center parking lot.

The accident took place around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. Police said the car was driven by a woman in her 80s, and that she was also injured when she drove into three pedestrians who were on the sidewalk in front of the Harbor Freight Tools building.

Witnesses say the woman was driving at a high rate of speed.

"It was a high rate of speed," said Natick Police Chief James Hicks. "What that means, we don't know right now. Definitely a high rate of speed for a parking lot."

Witnesses didn't know how to react, when the older model Buick came barreling through the shopping center.

"We heard this tremendous noise, metal being crunched, and we witnessed a car that had come around the corner," witness Doug Smith said. "We just saw it change directions and it proceeded by the front of our store. We thought it was actually going to impact the front of the store."

The victims were two men in their 70s and one in his 40s. One remains in critical condition.

It is not yet known what caused the woman to drive into the building.

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