Young woman dies after being struck by truck in Leichhardt, Sydney

A 43-year-old woman has tragically died after being struck by a truck while using her phone and wearing headphones in Sydney’s inner west. 

The accident happened at the Marion Street and Flood Street intersection in Leichhardt at about 10.30am on Tuesday. 

About a dozen witnesses and shopkeepers frantically tried to give the woman first aid and CPR after she was struck by the truck reportedly driven by a young father. 

NSW Ambulance Service confirmed in a statement on Tuesday evening the woman died at the scene. 

‘She had a phone and just thought she could beat the red man light,’ a witness told the Daily telegraph.

‘The poor driver was in shock. It is just very sad and upsetting, she was a young woman, wearing active wear.’

Police officers gather at the scene about 10.30am on Tuesday (pictured) 

Witnesses claimed the young woman had tragically been looking at her phone with her headphones in and was unaware she had walked into danger.

The male driver was seen bent over in shock against a shop wall on the on edge of the busy road with police speaking with him.

The man, also aged 43, was not injured and has been taken to hospital for mandatory testing. 

Paramedics and police arrived quickly but the woman had suffered a head wound and sadly could not be resuscitated.  

A man was bent over in shock on the street and speaking to police, with the officers fetching the man a chair (pictured) 

The asphalt had been slick as there had been intermittent rain in Leichardt throughout the morning. 

Some witnesses claimed the woman had walked across as the pedestrian signal was changing.  

‘It was a very sombre scene for our paramedics and bystanders here this morning,’ NSW Ambulance Inspector Karl Cronan said.

‘The bystanders who attempted to assist the patient before we arrived on scene are to be highly commended, it was a heartbreaking scene.