AMHERST — A 67-year-old Amherst woman died Tuesday evening after the vehicle her husband was driving struck her in the driveway at their Hunters Hill Circle home, according to the Northwestern district attorney’s office.
Mary Carey, spokeswoman for the office, said the woman was taken by Amherst Fire Department ambulance to Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, where she was pronounced dead around 6:30 p.m.
No charges have been filed.
“It’s still under investigation, but at this time they think it’s an accident,” Carey said.
Amherst Police and Amherst Fire Department, Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Northwestern district attorney’s office, the state police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section and the state police Crime Services all responded.
Carey said the name of the deceased will not be released until Thursday based on a policy to give families at least 24 hours to let their relatives know about an incident.
A neighbor who lives across the street from the Hunters Hill Circle house where the accident took place said he saw a red pickup truck parked across the road at a 90 degree angle from the house most of Tuesday night.
Dick Mathews, the neighbor, said he did not know the people who live in the house, though there are always vehicles coming and going. The truck, which he said he believed came out of the driveway across the street, blocked most of the road for several hours.
Occupants of the house declined to talk about the incident Wednesday morning.
The end of the driveway, where the accident may have taken place, was icy Wednesday morning, despite salt that had been applied to the ice.
Mathews said the police, along with emergency workers, were on scene for hours Tuesday night.
He and his wife, Carolyn, had just finished setting up their Christmas tree when two police cruisers arrived and emergency personnel began stringing yellow tape.
“The whole street was blocked off and there was an incredible amount of activity,” Mathews said.
This is the second fatal incident in which a pedestrian was struck by a motor vehicle in as many months. On Nov. 7, a man was killed while waiting at a bus stop in North Amherst.
