A teenage girl was struck by a pickup truck in Hamilton’s central business district today, and police are searching for the driver who sped off.
The girl was hit by a red pickup truck at 12:12 p.m. at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and High Street, said Hamilton Police Sgt. Rich Burkhardt.
She was taken to Fort Hamilton Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, he said.
According to police, the driver of truck yelled at a witness the girl was struck.
Police later found the truck in the 600 block of Heaton Street and are continuing their search for the driver as they investigate the incident.
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