Central teen hit by car, dies
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CENTRAL — A 14-year-old girl who had just taken two final exams Tuesday morning and was planning to spend the afternoon shopping with her grandmother was struck and killed by a car as the girl stepped into the road to check the mail.
Ca’ley Brianna Simmons was standing by the mailboxes across the street from her grandmother’s house at 13605 Brown Road when a northbound white Lincoln Town Car struck her at 11:15 a.m., Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks said.
Hicks declined to release the driver’s name because she is not being charged, but said the woman is in her 80s.
Levon Hyde, Simmons’ grandmother, said she was standing outside of her house at the time and heard a loud noise.
“I turned around, and I saw her flying into the air,” Hyde said.
Simmons died at the scene, Hicks said.
No charges have been pressed against the driver, Hicks said, adding that alcohol use was not suspected.
Hyde said Simmons, an eighth-grader at Northwestern Middle School in Zachary, had just taken her final exams in English and reading, and they were planning to spend the afternoon shopping together.
“She was just a bright, intelligent child who was pretty and had so much to live for,” Hyde said.
Simmons played the drums in the school band and was an avid runner in track, Hyde said. She had received a track award earlier that morning.
Simmons, who had an older brother and sister, lived with her aunt in Zachary but had spent the past few nights at her grandmother’s house, Hyde said.
The teen hoped to become a defense attorney, Hyde said.
“We’re all just sick over it,” she said of her granddaughter’s death. “She had such a promising future.”
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