Irene Puswald ID'd as jogger fatally injured by SUV
Police at the scene on Salisbury Avenue and Kensington Road on Friday, March 21, 2014 in Garden City, where a jogger was struck by a car. The 64-year-old woman sustained multiple traumas, police said, and was pronounced dead at 4:30 p.m. at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola. Credit: Howard Schnapp
A jogger who was killed on Friday when she was hit by a sport utility vehicle has been identified by Nassau County police as a Garden City South woman.
Police said Irene Puswald, 64, was struck by a 2003 Honda CRV just before noon Friday as she jogged on Kensington Road near Salisbury Avenue in Garden City.
Puswald suffered trauma and was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead that afternoon, police said.
Puswald's family declined to comment about the accident.
The Honda's driver, a 43-year-old West Hempstead woman, was not injured.
Police said the collision was an accident, adding that there was no criminality involved in the case.
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