Woman Trying to Push Car Killed in Birmingham Parking Lot

A 45-year-old Roseville woman died Monday when she became pinned between two vehicles at the North Old Woodward Parking Lot, Birmingham police said.

Michaele Love was trying to push a 2004 Toyota Sienna Van out of the driving lane after it stalled at the entrance of the lot when it began to roll shortly after 3 p.m., a news release stated. The initial investigation showed Love was outside the driver's side with the door open and tried to stop the vehicle as it dipped on a slight downgrade.

The vehicle sideswiped another car and pinned her, according to a witness that called 9-1-1, police said.

Love was unresponsive when officers and firefighters arrived. They freed her and rushed her to the emergency room at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. An autopsy by the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office was scheduled for Tuesday morning.

Love was alone in the vehicle, which belonged to a family she worked for as a babysitter. Police said she was on her way to pick up a child at the Montessori School next to the parking lot.