Man struck by mini van at corner of Yonge and College. Witnesses say driver took off. Victim appeared conscious. pic.twitter.com/agwf5BS2dh
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A man is suffering broken bones after he was struck in a hit and run at Yonge St and College St.
Witness Alex tells NEWSTALK 1010 it happened Tuesday morning as the victim was beginning to make his way across the intersection in the crosswalk.
According to Alex, the man behind the wheel of a light-coloured minivan with an accessibility sticker was smoking as he steered through a turn and rolled over the pedestrian's foot and ankle.
"He just kind of drove right over him. It was unbelievable."
The minivan left south on Yonge as the pedestrian fell to the ground in the middle of the street. Alex is not sure that the driver knows he hit someone.
Somehow the victim wound up on the sidewalk where he sat conscious and alert but trembling under a plastic sheet waiting to be loaded onto a stretcher by paramedics and firefighters.
As word of the crash began to spread, Toronto mayor John Tory reacted.
"Too many people are getting hit by cars in our city. It needs to stop," Tory tweeted.
In July Tory endorsed a plan to cut the number of pedestrians killed and hurt by cars in Toronto by one fifth in 10 years.
With files from Hayley Cooper