Two children, ages 6 and 10, were taken to a hospital after a vehicle struck them and an adult in a crosswalk in Saint Cloud on Wednesday afternoon, Saint Cloud police said.
The crash happened around 4:50 p.m. Oct. 21 at 15th Avenue Southeast and University Drive Southeast, according to police information reported by WJON and Saint Cloud LIVE. Saint Cloud LIVE placed the crash near Talahi Community School.
Police said the driver was turning onto 15th Avenue Southeast from University Drive Southeast when the vehicle hit the two children and the adult, who were using the crosswalk, according to those reports.
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Police described the children’s injuries as substantial but not believed to be life-threatening. The 6-year-old was flown to Children’s Hospital. The 10-year-old was taken to a hospital by ambulance. The adult was not taken to a hospital.
The driver, a 56-year-old Saint Cloud resident, was cited for failure to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk. Police did not describe any other charge in the information reported so far.
Saint Cloud LIVE noted that it was the second serious pedestrian crash in the area in two days. On Tuesday, a school bus hit a 27-year-old woman in a Saint Cloud crosswalk, as MN CRIME reported.
