AIRMONT — An Airmont woman died Monday night after she was struck by a van while leaving a Saddle River Road nail salon.
Chanie Walfish, 57, was leaving Ivy Palace Day Spa and Nails at 424 Saddle River Road about 7:10 p.m. when a Ford van hopped the curb and struck her, police said.
The Ramapo Valley Ambulance Corps transported Walfish to Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, where she was later pronounced dead.
"She was in traumatic arrest," said Raymond Florida, executive director of Rockland Paramedic Services, which also responded to the crash. "When medics arrived, she had no pulse. They were unsuccessful at resuscitating her.
A Ramapo police accident investigation team reported to the parking lot of the salon by 7:30 p.m., police said. Investigators were still in front of the stand-alone building at 10:30 p.m., working to repair a salon door that had been damaged in the crash. The silver, 2008 Ford van still sat with its front wheels perched on the six-inch curb.
Ramapo police Sgt. Robert Lancia said that Walfish had to be removed from beneath the van when responders arrived.
"She was beneath the van," Lancia said, adding that it took about five responders to move the vehicle. "We put the van in neutral and pushed it off of her."
The driver of the van, Gum Ju Sim, 43, of Flushing, was uninjured in the crash.
Lancia said that the exact cause of the crash had not been determined Monday and that the investigation continued.
The driver had not been ticketed.
Ramapo police, Ramapo Valley Ambulance Corps and Rockland Paramedic Services were assisted at the scene by the Monsey Fire Department and Hatzolah Ambulance Corps.
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