The woman was struck by a tractor trailer driver near 91st Street around noon, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said.
Responding officers found the lifeless body of a woman and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the tractor trailer, a 38-year-old Texas man, continued on Tonnelle Avenue, stopped in the area of 68th Street, and called 911.
No arrests had been made as of Saturday morning.
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