A 50-year-old woman is dead after she was struck by her own vehicle in Vaughan.

Police say the woman got out of her Mercedes-Benz SUV when it began to roll back onto her.

The accident occurred just after 11 a.m. this morning in a parking lot at Keele Street and Steeles Avenue. Her vehicle could be scene in the middle of the parking lot, stopped at an angle.

Her name has not yet been released.