AN elderly woman was killed after she was struck by a vehicle in Marabella yesterday.

Sixty-five-year-old Jameella Basrally, of Choon Street, Soledad West in Claxton Bay, was pronounced dead at hospital. Basrally was knocked down around 2.30 p.m. near the corner of Market Street and Southern Main Road, in front of the JTA Shopping Complex.

A police report stated that the driver of a van that struck the pensioner was headed south on the Southern Main Road. The driver told the police his vehicle was in the left lane when he swerved to avoid a collision with another vehicle, but then struck the elderly woman, who was standing on the side of the roadway.