An Auburn University library employee was struck by a dark gray Chevrolet Z71 while walking toward The Hotel at Auburn University Hotel and Dixon Conference Center.
Mary Hammett, 58, an evening supervisor in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library was Lifeflighted with a head injury to the Columbus Regional Medical Center.
Hammett is in unsatisfactory condition in the Intensive Care Unit, which a medical center spokesperson said is the best condition she can be in in the ICU.
"(The driver) just came out, he was saying, 'Oh God, oh God,' said Esther Ngumbi, graduate student in entomology. "And he knelt down to see if she was breathing."
Ngumbi said she was talking on her cell phone when she heard a loud 'bang.' She called 911 at 7:26 p.m. when she said she looked and saw Hammett lying in the road.
The paramedics arrived minutes after she called them, Ngumbi said.
The driver of the Z71 was pulling out of the conference center parking lot onto South College Street when the truck struck Hammett.
The driver was a 25-year-old male from Brewton, said Captain Tom Stofer of the Auburn Police Department.
The name of the driver has not been released because the police are still investigating the incident.
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