Cambridge crash sends teen pedestrian to hospital with serious injuries
A Waterloo region police car on King Street West in August of 2022. (Daniel Caudle/CTV News Kitchener)
A 16-year-old teenager has been taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after a crash in Cambridge.
Waterloo Regional Police were called to the collision involving a pedestrian at the intersection of Franklin Boulevard and Dundas Street South on Wednesday at 5:25 p.m.
Police are looking for witnesses or any footage of the incident.
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