Fire-Rescue News- Pedestrian dies when driver, 84, backs over her in car, Absecon police say
By DEREK HARPER Staff Writer | Posted: Saturday, April 17, 2010 | 16 comments
ABSECON - A pedestrian died Friday afternoon when an 84-year-old driver backed into with her car on Station Avenue, city police said.
Lorraine Marschall, of Egg Harbor City, backed out of a parking space on the first block of Station and into the woman, killing her, at 2:12 p.m., police said.
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identified the dead woman, pending notification of her family. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:30 p.m.
Police did not say Friday night if Marschall had been charged.
Liz Girard, who lives across the White Horse Pike from the NJ Transit train station on Station Avenue, said she was at the kitchen window when she heard yelling outside about 2:15 p.m.
When she ran outside, she saw several people shouting and trying to stop a driver from backing up, she said. A person was lying directly behind the vehicle, she said.
She said the driver did not respond to the shouting and backed over the woman. Girard did not know why the woman was lying in the street.
Emergency crews set up a wall of tarps around the woman, who lay covered in a white sheet in the middle of the road. Crews blocked the scene with an ambulance, a fire truck and a fire utility vehicle.
A police officer spoke with Girard and other witnesses, standing behind yellow police tape. A truck belonging to the Atlantic County Medical Examiner's Office was parked nearby.
The road was closed for about two hours after the accident. Sgt. Matthew Ward and Detective Robert Ponzetti are investigating.
Contact Derek Harper: 609-272-7046 DHarper@pressofac.com
