A pedestrian has been struck by a car at Main and Oak streets, Batavia.
State Police are on scene. City fire and Mercy EMS being dispatched.
UPDATE 8:22 a.m. (by Billie): A medic at the scene says the pedestrian will be transported to the hangar and taken to a hospital via Mercy Flight.
UPDATE 8:39 p.m.: The pedestrian is a female who suffered a compound leg fracture and will be flown to Strong Memorial Hospital. She was reportedly part of a crew here to sell a special kids' edition of the Buffalo News. Reportedly there are three witnesses, two who were interviewed at the scene, and a school bus driver.
UPDATE 9:18 a.m.: The woman was crossing the street and another vehicle blocked her view of an oncoming car, and blocked that driver from seeing her, according to Officer Eric Hill. The accident is under investigation and no decision has been made about who, if either party, will get a citation. The woman appears to have suffered no other injury than the broken leg, but she will be evaluated at Strong. It doesn't appear that she was actively selling papers at the time of the accident. If she was part of the crew, she was apparently crossing the street to join a crew of people on the Oliver's corner.
I'm surprised this doesn't
I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. The sales people can be very aggressive.
Obviously I'm not saying the woman w/ the broken leg is at fault...It's just that standing in the road trying to stop cars to buy a newspaper seems like a hazardous way to raise money.
I wonder if Penn State students report a lot of injuries during the "canning" season.
I hope she is OK. On my way
I hope she is OK. On my way to work this morning, there was a lady standing IN THE MEDIAN on route 5 at Oak Street trying to wave people down to buy the paper. It wouldn't have been safe to stop the car to make the purchase.