Another person has been hit by a car while using the cross walk to the Cosmosphere along 11th Avenue. According to 911 the accident happened just before 7:45 when an east bound car struck the pedestrian.
The woman, 18-year-old Alexis Martin, was taken by EMS to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, then air-lifted to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita for treatment of a hip injury. The driver of the car, 17-year-old Michael Tharp, was uninjured. Police say no citations were issued, and speed, texting, drugs or alcohol are not believed to be a factor in the accident.
The cross walk has been the scene of several similar accidents in the past, despite yellow flashing lights warning motors to yield to pedestrians. Other similar flashing lights are at the cross walks at 12th and 13th Avenues along Plum, on the west side of the HCC Campus. The city has been reluctant to install stop lights at the cross walk because of the short distance between it and the 11th and Plum intersection, just to the west.