A CTV Information Kitchener reporter has been struck and significantly injured whereas protecting 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 sedan.
She had been gathering pictures 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 automobile, a sedan,” OPP Const. Joshua Cunningham stated.
Villella was transported to a trauma centre with accidents police name critical and probably life-threatening.
The driving force of the sedan remained on the scene.
“We’re trying into witness accounts, we’re trying into bodily proof to actually determine what had occurred,” Cunningham stated.
Individuals who witnessed the crash instructed CTV Information the driving force appeared aged and Villella was inside the highway closure space when the automobile got here by way of, putting her.
Police say it’s too quickly to touch upon whether or not fees might 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 staff are with Stephanie and her household tonight.
