A woman who was run over by a forklift at a business in Lake City, Georgia has reportedly died from her injuries.

According to Lake City Police Chief Tony Whitmire, customers who come to Insurance Auto Auction are typically picking up repossessed vehicles, cleaning personal items out of repossessed vehicles, settling insurance claims, or buying used automobiles.

Employees at Insurance Auto Auction use a forklift to move vehicles from lot to lot that cannot be driven.

According to Chief Whitmire, the victim was standing in front of one of the gates to the salvage lot. He believes the woman was picking up personal items from a car and looking through the items on a cart.

The gate she was standing near opened and a forklift carrying a car came through the gate, running her over and killing her almost instantly.

Chief Whitmire said the car blocked the forklift driver’s full view of his surroundings and he did not realize he had run someone over until he came back across the street after unloading the car.

The standard procedure at Insurance Auto Auction is for forklift operators to blow the horn numerous times before coming through an area, Chief Whitmire added.

The investigation into the circumstances surrounding the accident continues.

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