NANAIMO — A woman was taken to hospital after being hit by a car while dropping her child off at school.
Calls to 911 came in just after 8:20 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 23 to the Hammond Bay Rd. and Morningside Dr. area after a woman was hit by a turning car during the school drop-off rush.
Leanna Plug was one of the first on scene, as she was in the middle of dropping her child off at nearby Hammond Bay Elementary School, and called 911.
“I saw a lady pinned under the back wheel of the vehicle, she got hit by a driver as she was trying to cross the street. The pedestrian was screaming and the vehicle eventually got off the pedestrian and [she] was just laying in the intersection until 911…arrived.”
She said the woman hit was 43 years old, while her elementary school-aged child was uninjured.
Plug added the woman was responsive, in pain and beginning to experience some shock immediately after the accident.
The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene and cooperated with police.
It appears the vehicle, a small SUV, was attempting to turn right from Morningside Dr., onto Hammond Bay Rd., at the time of the incident.
Nanaimo Fire Rescue, RCMP and BC Emergency Health Services paramedics attended the scene, restricting traffic flow along Hammond Bay Rd., causing significant delays.
Plug said it’s always been a busy area, especially during school drop-offs and pickup.
“There’s always kids running across the street and [the victim] kept saying ‘thank god it wasn’t a kid, she could have hit a kid’. I come here every day dropping my kids off at school so we cross the street, twice a day, every day.”
Conditions at the time of the incident were less than ideal with fog in the area and wet roads from some overnight rainfall.
Paramedics loaded a 43-year-old woman into an ambulance for travel to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, after being hit by a car Monday morning near Hammond Bay Elementary. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)Local news. Delivered. Free. Subscribe to our daily news wrap and get our top local stories delivered to your email inbox every evening
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