A woman died yesterday morning after being struck by a delivery truck in the Princeton Shopping Center parking lot, authorities said.
She was admitted to Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center in New Brunswick in critical condition, said Chief Greg Paulson of the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad.
The hospital has not yet identified the woman, said a nursing supervisor, who declined to give her name.
It is not likely that the woman was a student, said Lauren Robinson-Brown '85, director of communications. University officials who are notified when a Princeton student is involved in an accident have not been notified, she said.
Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad responded to a dispatch at 9:30 a.m. for a woman trapped under a wheel of a delivery truck, Paulson said. The woman was still beneath the truck when the rescue crew arrived, he said.
Ravens Garcon, 36, of Hazlet was delivering gas cylinders to a doctor's office in the shopping center, Princeton Township Police Capt. Peter Savalli said.
Garcon, who works for Middlesex Welding Sales Company in North Brunswick, turned into the south entrance of the shopping center and turned left while the woman was crossing the street, he said.
"It is believed, but not confirmed, she was in the crosswalk at the time," according to a Township Police press release.
The woman was crossing a street near the Valley Road entrance of the shopping center near McCaffrey's supermarket, Paulson said.
An ambulance team freed the woman from under the truck, and she was transported in critical condition to the trauma center at Robert Wood Johnson hospital, he said.
Princeton Township Mayor Phyllis Marchand said this was the first incident she could recall in which the victim had not been easily identifiable.
"I hope they are able to identify the next of kin," she said.
The incident is under investigation and police said they hope to have more information tomorrow.
Another vehicle-related accident occurred closer to campus last week when two students were struck Wednesday night while crossing Washington Road near Fine Hall.
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