A vehicle driven by an on-duty police officer struck a child Thursday on West Main Street in Battle Ground. The child was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
The crash took place around 1:10 p.m., according to the Battle Ground Police Department.
The police said the officer reported the incident in the 1700 block of West Main Street and provided medical aid until emergency medical personnel arrived on scene. The child’s mother was present when the child was hit and accompanied the child to the hospital, police said
Emergency radio traffic monitored at The Columbian indicated that the child, a 5-year-old boy, was trying to cross the street when a car hit him.
Clark County Fire District 3 Assistant Chief Scott Sorenson said emergency personnel on scene told him the child’s injuries were not life-threatening. Radio traffic indicated the child was conscious, breathing and crying when put aboard an ambulance.
The Vancouver Police Department’s traffic unit is investigating.
Vancouver Police spokeswoman Kim Kapp said Thursday afternoon the Vancouver Police did not yet know the full circumstances of the incident.
Traffic unit officers will be interviewing witnesses, the mother and anyone else at the scene, she said, but holidays sometimes limit witnesses’ availability.
“It may be into next week before we have any additional information,” she said.
The crash was one of two to occur in quick succession around the same time in Battle Ground.
Not long after the child was struck, a second crash was reported at 101 S. Parkway Ave., about a block south of Battle Ground High School.
Radio traffic called it a T-bone crash. Battle Ground Police Department spokeswoman Bonnie Gilberti said a silver SUV and white pickup truck collided, and one of the vehicle’s drivers was taken to Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center as a precaution.
A third crash was reported an hour later near 1200 W. Main St., about a block east of where the child was struck.
The Battle Ground Police Department is investigating both crashes, Gilberti said.
