53-year-old sent to hospital following hit-and-run collision in Waterloo

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By CityNews Kitchener Staff

Posted Oct 28, 2024 01:48:12 PM.

Last Updated Oct 29, 2024 09:50:16 AM.

Waterloo Regional Police are looking for a motorist involved in a hit-and-run collision in Waterloo that sent a pedestrian to hospital.

It happened just before 8 p.m. Saturday night at the Erb Street West and Ira Needles Boulevard roundabout.

Police said the vehicle fled the scene and the pedestrian, a 53-year-old man from Waterloo, was taken to an out-of-region hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police.

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