A CTV Information Kitchener reporter has been struck and severely injured whereas masking a crash simply south of Guelph, Ont.
Stephanie Villella was on the intersection of Brock Street South and Maltby Street which had been closed and barricaded by police when she was hit by a sedan.
Villella had been gathering photographs of a separate two-vehicle crash that occurred on Brock Street earlier within the day.
“On the highway closed barricade right here, we had a pedestrian struck by a separate car, a sedan,” OPP Const. Joshua Cunningham mentioned.
Villella was transported to a trauma centre with accidents police name severe and doubtlessly life-threatening.
The motive force of the sedan remained on the scene.
“We’re trying into witness accounts, we’re trying into bodily proof to actually establish what had occurred,” Cunningham mentioned.
Individuals who witnessed the crash advised CTV Information the driving force appeared aged and Villella was inside the highway closure space when the automotive got here by way of, putting her.
Police say it’s too quickly to touch upon whether or not expenses will likely be laid within the collision.
Anybody within the space with data is requested to contact Wellington County OPP.
Editor’s be aware: The ideas of our CTV Information Kitchener group are with Stephanie and her household tonight.
