Police are appealing for witnesses to a fatal crash in Mount Wellington in Auckland yesterday afternoon.
An 86-year-old woman was struck by a car opposite the Penrose Road entrance to Countdown, about 1.25pm.
Constable Gerard Ryan, from the Auckland Serious Crash Unit, said the woman walked in front of a truck, which was stationary in the right-hand lane heading east towards Mount Wellington Highway on Penrose Road, before she was hit.
The woman was walking in a northerly direction on the Countdown side of the road when she was struck by a red Toyota vehicle in the left hand lane.
She was transported to Auckland hospital, but passed away about 6pm.
