Pedestrian Hit by Minivan on Lawrence Township Road

Update: On Nov. 21, Lawrence Township police identified the pedestrian who was injured in this accident as Joanne Fisher, 55, of the 1000 block of Brunswick Avenue, Trenton.

A woman was badly injured when she was struck by a vehicle as she tried to walk across Brunswick Pike (Business Route 1) in Lawrence Township Saturday evening (Nov. 19).

The woman, a 55-year-old Trenton resident whose name was being withheld pending notification of her family, suffered injuries that, while being serious in nature, are not believed to be life-threatening, according to Lawrence Township police.

Sgt. Chris Longo said it was just before 6:40 p.m. when the female pedestrian was hit in the southbound side of the road, almost directly in front of the McGuinn’s Place tavern in 1700 block of Brunswick Pike, by the southbound 2000 Pontiac minivan being driven by Glenn Johnson, 52, of South Walter Avenue, Trenton.

He said police are still investigating to determine in which direction the woman was walking when she was struck.

Numerous township police officers, Lawrence Township emergency medical technicians and paramedics from Capital Health System raced to the scene and attended to the injured woman. They quickly loaded her into an ambulance and rushed her to the trauma unit at Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton.

The southbound lanes of Brunswick Pike, from just north of the Burger King restaurant to Haveson Avenue, were closed to traffic for several hours while authorities investigated.

The injured woman’s sneakers, having apparently been knocked off her in the collision, sat in the middle of the roadway.

Officers could be seen administering field sobriety tests to Johnson, the driver of the minivan. While he appeared to have passed those tests, he was nevertheless arrested by police.

Longo said Johnson was charged with operating a motor vehicle while having a suspended driver’s license.

Johnson was charged in connection with multiple outstanding warrants from Ewing, Lawrence, Princeton and Trenton, Longo said.    

He said the accident remains under investigation by township Police Officer Marc Poveromo and Detective Tony Abarno of the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.

Any witnesses to the accident are asked to call township police at (609) 896-1111.