Truck driver charged in Friday vehicle-pedestrian collision

By Meghan Groff

Posted Oct 24, 2022 04:19:35 PM.

The driver of a transport truck has been charged after a pedestrian was struck Friday afternoon in downtown Halifax.

Halifax Regional Police were called to Hollis Street and Terminal Road at 2 p.m.

They say the Freightliner truck was heading south on Hollis when the driver went through a stop sign and hit an 83-year-old woman on a mobility scooter.

She was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

A 53-year-old man has been charged with failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk and failing to stop at a stop sign.

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