A 13-year-old boy was taken to a hospital Thursday afternoon after a police cruiser struck him while he ran across the street in Newburyport, according to police.

Police and firefighters responded to the crash in front of Rupert A. Nock Middle School around 2:30 p.m., the Newburyport Police Department said in a press release . A preliminary investigation determined that a marked police cruiser traveling east on Low Street hit a student from the school around the time of dismissal.

The police officer driving the cruiser was not responding to an emergency at the time of the crash, police said. Several witnesses said the boy “darted out” from between two parked cars.

“Preliminary investigation and witness accounts suggest that the cruiser had no warning and that there was nothing the off

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