A 9-year-old girl has been injured after she was struck in a crosswalk by a hit-and-run driver who ran a red light in Orange, according to a news report.
Orange Police reported that the girl was walking with her 10-year-old brother in a crosswalk at the intersection of West Collins Avenue and North Glasell Street when the driver of a sedan ran a red light and struck the girl. She was taken to UCI Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
Witnesses to the pedestrian accident told police that the driver of the sedan stopped briefly and then drove off west on Collins Avenue. The vehicle was described as a dark sedan with body damage and a broken window on the passenger side of the vehicle. Anyone with information is asked to call Orange investigators at 714-744-7444.
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