BARNSTABLE, MASS. (WHDH) - Police have launched an investigation after a student was struck by a town-owned truck on Cape Cod on Thursday morning, officials said.
Officers responding to multiple 911 calls for a crash involving a pedestrian on West Main Street near Lincoln Road in Barnstable just after 8 a.m. found a young girl injured at the scene, according to the Barnstable Police Department.
The victim, a student at the Barnstable Intermediate School, was taken to Cape Cod Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The vehicle involved in the crash was a Barnstable Department of Public Works truck operated by a town employee, police said.
The driver stayed on scene after the crash and was said to be cooperative.
The crash remains under investigation.
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