A 48-year-old woman is facing two charges, including careless driving, after a woman was struck and killed by a vehicle near the waterfront earlier this month.

A Mercedes SUV was travelling on Bremner Boulevard, at Spadina Avenue, around 2 p.m. on June 14 when the driver mounted the curb and hit a 38-year-old woman on the sidewalk, pinning her against a retaining wall.

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The SUV struck several food stands on the sidewalk, and the woman was a vendor at one of the stands. Her 35-year-old relative, also a vendor, was injured.

The driver was trying to get into the right-hand turning lane from Bremner to Spadina when the SUV accelerated and lost control, going straight up the sidewalk.

Police have not released the name of the driver, who has also been charged with not changing a lane safely.

She is scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 1.

The vendor was killed on the same day Toronto police said pedestrians were the biggest problem at city intersections. Police and Mayor John Tory had been conducting a safety blitz just blocks from where the driver mounted the curb.