William C Lopez/New York Post
Scene of the deadly accident in Brooklyn tonight.
A Brooklyn woman was crushed to death by an out-of-control pickup tonight just seconds after she left a Brooklyn Heights cafe with a bag of cookies, cops and witnesses said.
Martha Atwater, 48, had just paid for five horseshoe-shaped cookies and exited Bagel Cafe when the driver of a black Honda Ridgeline jumped the curb and pinned her against the Clinton Street building at about 5:40 p.m., cops said.
“She just came in to buy cookies. She looked happy, she was smiling,” said cafe manager Alauddin Shipun.
“She walked out. I heard a big bang and she was gone. Someone was trying to lift her head up and asking her, ‘Are you okay? Are you okay?”
The 53-year-old driver may have lost consciousness because of his diabetes, a police source said.
He remained at the scene and has not been charged.
Atwater was pronounced dead at Long Island College Hospital.Her husband identified her there, a police source said.
Atwater graduated from Princeton University, had been an executive at education company Scholastic, and was on the board of the Brooklyn Heights Association.
“She was very active in the community,” said a neighbor near Atwater’s Remsen Street home.
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