Woman dies in Norwood after being hit by a snow plow

A woman died Sunday after she was hit by a snowplow in the MBTA’s Norwood Central station parking lot, according to transit police.

The woman, a 51-year-old whose identity has not been released, was walking through the parking lot with her husband at around 2 p.m. when she was hit by a Ford truck moving in reverse, transit police said in a statement.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Her husband, 47, was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The driver works for a private company and was contracted by the MBTA for snow removal during the massive winter storm that hit Massachusetts Sunday.

"This is an unimaginable horrific incident," Richard Sullivan, superintendent of the transit police department said in the statement. "On behalf of the Transit Police and the entire MBTA organization we express our most sincere condolences to the victim’s family and friends. Our thought and prayers are with them."

Transit police said the 33-year-old plow driver is cooperating with its detectives. Authorities did not issue his name.

Transit police are working with the Norfolk County District Attorney’s office to investigate the incident, the agency said.