‘Young pedestrian’ suffers life-threatening injuries in crosswalk hit

Vernon, B.C., Mounties are investigating a collision that near a “young pedestrian” pinch serious, life-threatening injuries.

At astir 12:10 p.m. Saturday, constabulary received a study that a pedestrian had been struck by a conveyance astatine nan intersection of 32nd Street and 30th Avenue successful Vernon.

Personnel instantly tended to nan victim, who had serious, life-threatening injuries, constabulary say.

“Preliminary findings from nan investigation propose nan younker was crossing 32nd Street successful nan crosswalk erstwhile they were struck by a pickup motortruck making a right-hand move from 30th Avenue northbound onto 32nd Street,” RCMP said.

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“The driver of nan conveyance remained astatine nan segment and is cooperating pinch police.”

The intersection was closed to postulation for respective hours while officers conducted their investigation.

Anyone who witnessed aliases has dashcam footage of nan collision, and has not yet spoken to police, is asked to interaction nan Vernon North Okanagan RCMP astatine 250-545-7171 and quote record #2024-12112.