A woman was taken to hospital after being hit by a turning car along Hammond Bay Rd. Monday morning. No children were injured in the incident. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)

By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff

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Mother hospitalized after being hit by car near Nanaimo elementary school

Sep 23, 2024 | 9:15 AM

NANAIMO — A woman was taken to hospital after being hit by a car while dropping her child off at school.

Calls to 911 came in on Monday, Sept. 23 just after 8:20 a.m. to the Hammond Bay Rd./Morningside Dr. intersection after a woman was hit by a turning vehicle during the school drop-off rush.

Leanna Plug was one of the first on scene, as she was in the middle of dropping her child off at nearby Hammond Bay Elementary School, and called 911.

“I saw a lady pinned under the back wheel of the vehicle, she got hit by a driver as she was trying to cross the street. The pedestrian was screaming and the vehicle eventually got off the pedestrian and [she] was just laying in the intersection until 911…arrived.”

She said the woman hit was 43 years old, while her elementary school-aged child was uninjured.

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Plug added the woman was responsive, in pain and beginning to experience some shock immediately after the accident. She was tended to by an off-duty physician until paramedics arrived.

The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene and cooperated with police.

It appears the driver of an SUV was attempting to turn right from Morningside Dr., onto Hammond Bay Rd., at the time of the incident.

Nanaimo Fire Rescue, RCMP and BC Emergency Health Services paramedics attended the scene, restricting traffic flow along Hammond Bay Rd., causing significant delays.

Plug said the area is particularly busy during school drop-offs and pickup.

“There’s always kids running across the street and [the victim] kept saying ‘thank god it wasn’t a kid, she could have hit a kid’. I come here every day dropping my kids off at school so we cross the street, twice a day, every day.”

Road conditions were partially wet at the result of some overnight rainfall.

Nanaimo RCMP later said drugs, alcohol and speed are not considered to be factors in the crash.

Paramedics loaded a 43-year-old woman into an ambulance for travel to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, after being hit by a car Monday morning near Hammond Bay Elementary. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)

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