A 53-year-old woman is dead after a vehicle struck her and her husband in Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood early Friday morning.

According to police a couple was standing at the open trunk of their parked car on Davenport Rd. near Hazelton Ave. around 6:20 a.m. The pair were either loading or unloading items, police said, when another vehicle, a white GMC, slammed into them from behind.

“The driver was north-westbound on Davenport, and as the road turned he failed to negotiate the turn and struck the pedestrians,” said Sgt. Ron Gardner of Traffic Services.

The woman sustained critical injuries, and later died in hospital. The man was treated for non life-threatening injuries. The driver of the vehicle had no physical injuries, but was checked out in hospital for shock, according to Gardner.

Gardner said that the man and woman were married, and both the same age, 53.

No one else was in the vehicle aside from the male driver.

“We don’t have anything to indicate impairment,” Gardner said, speaking on the underlying cause of the collision. “We don’t know if it involved distracted driving, or fatigue. Those are things we’re looking at.”

The investigation into how and why the vehicle struck the pedestrians is ongoing.

“No charges have been laid yet,” he said, “but they haven’t been ruled out.”

According to statistics compiled by the Star using police and media reports, 47 pedestrians and cyclists have been killed so far this year.

There have been more pedestrian and cyclist deaths so far in 2018 than in any single year in a police database that goes back to 2007.

The Star’s pedestrian and cyclist death counts differs from the one maintained by police. That’s in part because Toronto police figures don’t include deadly collisions that happen on private property, such as in the parking lots of apartment buildings or malls, or on provincial 400-series highways within Toronto.

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The Star tracked these incidents since 2017, but does not have independent data for previous years.

It’s unclear if this year’s total is a record, as the Star does not have independent data on pedestrian and cyclist deaths before 2007.