
A CTV Kitchener reporter was struck by a vehicle and seriously injured Wednesday while covering an earlier collision south of Guelph.
CTV identified the reporter as Stephanie Villella in a story posted online early Wednesday evening.
Witnesses told CTV that Villella was standing inside a road closed barricade at Brock and Maltby roads when she was struck by a sedan driven by what appeared to be an elderly motorist.
Villella had been gathering images from an earlier two-vehicle crash on Brock Road that saw a driver airlifted to a trauma centre with non-life-threatening injuries.
In an update posted to Twitter Wednesday afternoon, Wellington County OPP Const. Joshua Cunningham said the pedestrian who was struck was taken to a trauma centre with serious, and possibly life-threatening, injuries.
Cunningham didn’t identify Villella in the video, but said the collision occurred on the closed road.
The CTV story said the driver who struck Villella remained at the scene.
An editor’s note at the bottom of the story said “The thoughts of our CTV Kitchener team are with Stephanie and her family tonight.”
Cunningham said the first crash occurred around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday when a tractor trailer and a sedan collided.
Brock Road was closed between Maltby and Wellington Rd. 34, and Cunningham said it would remain closed through the afternoon Wednesday as officers investigated both crashes.
Anyone with information about either collision is asked to contact Wellington County OPP.
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