The Carrboro Police Department is investigating a pedestrian and motor vehicle collision from Wednesday morning that sent both a bystander and a nearby dog to the hospital.

Authorities confirmed to Chapelboro that emergency services responded to a crash along Hillsborough Road around 8:15 a.m. on Wednesday. A car driving south drifted into the wrong lane and exited the roadway at the corner of Oak Street, according to the traffic accident report. When the vehicle drove over the curb, it struck a pedestrian who was standing on the corner talking with two other people, one of whom had a dog that was injured in the crash.

According to the report taken by Carrboro Police, the driver parked nearby and returned to the scene, describing to officers that they drifted lanes while taking down their sun visor.

A spokesperson for the Carrboro Police Department said the pedestrian was taken to UNC Hospital and experienced non-life threatening injuries, while the dog was taken to an animal hospital. No charges have been announced as of Thursday evening.

The incident marked the third motor vehicle collision with pedestrians or bicyclists in six days for the greater Chapel Hill and Carrboro community. A UNC student on a bicycle was struck by a turning dump truck along Cameron Avenue Thursday afternoon, while a pedestrian in the road was later struck and killed on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Thursday night in Chapel Hill.

 

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