UPDATE (8-18-22): The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) has identified the elderly woman involved in the crash after she passed away from her injuries on Thursday morning.
Police say 73-year-old Patsy Pinckard of Centerville died this morning from her injuries sustained after her car fell from the St. Thomas Midtown Hospital parking garage. Police say "Pinckard was driving in the public parking garage when she pulled into a spot and, for an unknown reason, the Tacoma went through the cable barriers and off the fourth floor deck of the garage."
She was wearing a seat belt at the time and there were no signs of impairment.
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A 73-year-old woman was hurt Wednesday morning after the pickup truck she was driving fell from the parking garage of Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital.
Metro Nashville Police say the woman was parked on the 4th floor of the parking garage on 21st Avenue South when her Nissan pickup truck went off of the structure and landed on its roof.
The woman was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and remains in critical condition. Police are working to notify her family.
Police say she was wearing her seat belt at the time of the accident. Authorities are trying to determine if the woman suffered from a medical incident prior to the crash.
A spokesperson for Saint Thomas Midtown sent the following statement to FOX 17 News:
"We are fully cooperating with Metro Nashville Police Department in their investigation of this incident."
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