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A hit-and-run left one woman dead at the Hawthorne Farmers Market, Aug. 10, 2014.

(Myles Ma/NJ.com)

Update: Hawthorne man charged with homicide after truck drives through farmers market

Update, 7:05 p.m.:

The driver of a pickup truck that smashed through a barricade at the Hawthorne Farmers Market at about 2:15 p.m. Sunday has yet to be charged, Police Chief Richard McCauliffe said.

The driver, whose identity police have not released, was evaluated at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Paterson after appearing “visibly upset,” he said.

The Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office is handling the investigation. A Hawthorne woman died and two people suffered minor injuries when a maroon pickup truck broke through the southern barricade of the market at Jefferson Place, McCauliffe said.

The car dragged a woman up Grand Avenue before turning left at Legion PLace and left again on Lafayette Street before stopping, McCauliffe said. The family of the woman, whom McCauliffe did not identify, was at police headquarters Sunday evening, he said.

Tomatoes were still strewn across the ground at about 7 p.m., when the vendors were finally allowed to pack up their trucks.

Update, 5:40 p.m.: Bailey Hildebrant, 21, was working at her family's farmstand when the pickup truck crashed through the barrier at the corner of Jefferson Place and Grand Avenue.

Her farmstand was the farthest south, and the first the truck hit.

The truck hit the table, and the table hit her, sending dozens of RH Farm tomatoes, grown in Hackettstown, through the air.

Hildebrant was taken to St. Joseph's Medical Center in Paterson for minor injuries; a lost toenail, a few scratches.

"I just want to know why he didn't stop," she said. "The barriers were all there and obviously you can see the tents."

HAWTHORNE — A borough woman is dead after a red pickup truck tore through the Hawthorne Farmers Market, officials said.

The vendors were just finishing up their day at about 2:20 p.m. when the truck drove through a barricade, striking several people and dragging a woman half a mile up Grand Avenue toward Legion Place, Mayor Richard Goldberg said.

“What happened here is something the town will not forget for a long time,” he said.

One man is in custody and two to three others are in the hospital, Goldberg said. The woman was a Hawthorne resident, he said.

Blythe Roth, co-owner of Tova’s All Natural Bakery, said the driver refused to stop, even after hitting people.

“I screamed and I ran after the car and I was just yelling stop, stop, stop, and they just kept going,” she said.

Police have not commented on incident. The Passaic County Sheriff’s Office has joined local police at the scene.

The market takes place every Sunday. Had the incident occurred an hour earlier, Goldberg said, it could have been much worse.

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