Great Neck Plaza Mayor Ted Rosen said the village has and will continue to bolster pedestrian safety following the death of a 95-year-old woman on Sept. 11 after a truck struck her while she attempted to cross the street at a Great Neck Plaza intersection.

“This is a terrible, terrible tragedy,” Rosen said. “My heart, and I’m sure I speak for everybody in the village and colleagues on the board and all the village staff, our deepest sympathies go out to this woman’s family.”

Police identified the woman as Great Neck’s Joyanna Marx. They were unable to provide the driver’s name.

Marx was hit by a 2004 Dodge Ram pickup truck while crossing the street at the intersection of Park Place and Grace Avenue. The truck was driving on the westbound lane of Grace Avenue.

The truck’s driver was a 37-year-old man. Police said he stayed at the scene after the incident.

Police said Marx sustained “severe trauma” from the collision and was transported to a local hospital. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.

No charges have been filed against the driver. Police said this suggests that the responding officers at the scene of the collision determined no arrestable offenses.

Rosen said the village has made strides in implementing pedestrian safety infrastructure and is seeking to advance it even further.

These efforts have included reducing speed limits, installing multiple radar speed detectors and leading pedestrian indicators, which give pedestrians a head start to cross the street before traffic lights permit cars to drive, he said. The leading pedestrian indicators are being implemented.

Rosen said he is asking that the village’s and the county’s traffic engineers assess the intersection of Park Place and Grace Avenue – where the woman was struck just a couple of weeks ago.

He said this will determine if there is anything more they can do to improve pedestrian safety, but is unsure what that result would be.

“We take very seriously the task of trying to improve safety for everybody – pedestrians, cars,” Rosen said. “…We just are determined to make our village as safe as possible, and that’s always a work in progress. We’re always trying to improve things.”