QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - Authorities are investigating after an elderly pedestrian was struck and critically injured by a police cruiser in Quincy on Wednesday morning, officials said.
Officers were responding to a reported medical call with CPR in progress about 7:30 a.m. when one of the police cruisers struck the man as he was crossing Independence Avenue near Goddard Street, according to Quincy police.
The pedestrian, identified by the owner of a nearby insurance company as a well-known, 79-year-old local barber, was taken to Boston Medical Center in critical condition.
“A police cruiser was coming down the street with lights on and siren going and he was crossing the street and I guess they hit him,” the man said, adding that an employee who saw the crash unfold said he was flown into the air and that she had “never seen anything like it.”
No additional information was immediately released.
The crash is being investigated by the Weymouth Police Crash Reconstruction Unit.
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