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Woman, 91, who killed toddler should not have been driving - inquiry

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Edith Duncan's Kia veered off Morningside Road in Edinburgh , hitting Xander Irvine and his mother.

Three-year-old died in hospital from multiple injuries in June 2020 .

Mrs Duncan was charged over the crash and died in May 2021 .

A fatal accident inquiry found she had frontotemporal dementia and was unfit to drive.

The inquiry called for the system that determines whether a person is fit to drive to be changed.

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