A Walt Disney Studios employee was fatally struck by a vehicle while walking to work in Burbank on Thursday morning, and the driver was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
The Alameda Avenue entrance to Walt Disney Studios in Burbank is shown in a Google Maps image.
Burbank police said investigators believe alcohol, drugs or a combination of both was an apparent factor in the crash that killed 54-year-old Michelle Landes.
She was crossing in a market crosswalk at Alameda Avenue and Lincoln Street when she was hit about 9:10 a.m., according to a Burbank Police Department news release.
After the vehicle hit her, it struck three other vehicles, police said. Landes, of Los Angeles, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
The driver, 37-year-old Stergios Economos, was arrested and is being held on $100,000 bail. An unidentified passenger in his vehicle was detained but released.
Disney CEO Bob Iger notified employees of the company via email, the Burbank Leader reported.
“We lost a valued Cast Member this morning in a tragic accident outside the Alameda Gate of the Disney lot,” Iger wrote, according to the Leader. “A number of other Cast Members witnessed the tragedy, and are understandably very shaken by the experience.”
The crash occurred very close to the Alameda Avenue entrance to the Disney lot in Burbank.
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