An 83-year-old Concord woman who was struck by a pickup truck Monday night on Loudon Road has died.
Yvonne Burroughs died Wednesday at Concord Hospital, where she had been since Monday, Concord police Lt. Tim O’Malley said. Burroughs suffered multiple serious injuries to her head and body after being hit by the pickup truck, which was traveling west in the area of 197 Loudon Road, he said.
Burroughs, who lived in a nearby apartment building, was on her way to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church at 180 Loudon Road at the time. She mistakenly thought the church was holding services Monday night, Pastoral Minister Ed Mullen said Wednesday afternoon.
“She was active in a number of our ministries here, including the Christmas fair, and she was just starting to teach faith formation,” Mullen said. “She was a wonderful woman – very inquisitive, very studious in her studies of faith.”
Burroughs was alert and able to communicate immediately after the crash, O’Malley said, but her condition quickly deteriorated Tuesday.
“Some time during the day yesterday, we got word that she wasn’t doing well,” he said Wednesday. “Then, early this morning, we learned she had passed away.”
Burroughs was crossing Loudon Road, but not in a pedestrian crosswalk, about 7:30 p.m. when the crash occurred, O’Malley said.
Burroughs was well known in the church, and her fellow members are shocked by her death, Mullen said.
When Burroughs was preparing for church membership, she brought with her to classes “a copious amount of notes and questions for us,” he recalled. She officially joined the church a few years ago during an Easter vigil, which her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter attended.
The area of Loudon Road where Monday’s crash occurred is not well lit, and the truck’s driver, Marianne Sharpe, 66, of Contoocook, told police she did not see Burroughs walking. O’Malley said Sharpe stopped immediately and waited for emergency responders. Sharpe is not facing any charges at this time.
“Although the investigation is still ongoing, police do not believe that alcohol and/or drugs played a role in the accident,” O’Malley wrote in a news release issued Wednesday morning.
He said that speed was also not a factor in the crash. The speed limit in that area of Loudon Road is 30 mph.
Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact Officer Christian Lovejoy or Detective Michael Cassidy at 225-8600.
Burroughs’s funeral will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church. It will be followed by a bereavement luncheon.
(Alyssa Dandrea can be reached at 369-3319, adandrea@cmonitor.com or on Twitter @_ADandrea.)