AN A320 BEING MARSHALED IN TO A GATE AVOIDED COLLIDING WITH VEHICLE BY CONDUCTING AN EMER STOP INJURING A FLT ATTENDANT.

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NEAR COLLISION WITH GND VEHICLE WHILE PARKING ACFT. WHILE TURNING IN TO GATE; CO-PLT NOTICED A WHITE VAN APCHING FROM THE R ON THE RAMP ACCESS ROAD. FO STATED THAT INITIALLY IT APPEARED THAT THE VAN WAS GOING TO STOP; BUT AS THE ACFT WAS ALMOST ON THE PARKING LINE; IT BECAME OBVIOUS THAT THE VAN WAS NOT GOING TO STOP. FO YELLED FOR IMMEDIATE STOP AND CAPT NOTICED VAN AT THE SAME TIME. MARSHALER SIMULTANEOUSLY NOTICED THE VAN STARTED SIGNALING FOR IMMEDIATE STOP. AS THE VAN WAS CONTINUING TOWARD THE ACFT; CAPT WAS FORCED TO APPLY MAX BRAKING TO PREVENT A COLLISION WITH THE VAN. THE VAN NEVER ATTEMPTED TO STOP OR AVOID THE ACFT; DRIVING RIGHT IN FRONT AND SLIGHTLY UNDER THE ACFT. VAN WAS A WHITE PANEL TYPE VAN; WITH ACR NAME ON THE BACK DOORS. CITY RAMP WAS ADVISED OF THE NEAR COLLISION. ONE FLT ATTENDANT WAS SLIGHTLY TURNED IN HER JUMPSEAT WHEN MAX BRAKING WAS APPLIED AND RPTED AFTERWARD OF SOME PAIN IN HER NECK. NONE OF THE OTHER ATTENDANTS OR PAX RPTED ANY IMMEDIATE EFFECTS. THERE WAS NO DOUBT ON THE FLT DECK CREW NOR THE MARSHALER THAT WE WOULD HAVE BEEN HIT BY THE VAN IF AN EMER STOP HAD NOT BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. THE VAN MISSED US BY NO MORE THAN 10 FT.