SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Police say a tractor-trailer struck an 89-year-old woman who later died on Mount Desert Island.

The Bangor Daily News reports that the Southwest Harbor woman fell Tuesday morning as she walked toward a truck that was turning right on Village Green Way from a parking area beside a local library.

Police say the truck’s rear passenger-side tires struck her.

Police have not released the name of the woman. She died of her injuries at a Bangor hospital.


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