EAST LONGMEADOW, MA (WGGB/WSHM) – A Postal Service employee is facing charges allegedly hitting a pedestrian with his mail truck.

East Longmeadow Police Chief Mark Williams said that several 911 calls came in around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday to report a crash that involved a mail truck and a pedestrian near the gas pumps of the Pride gas station at the town’s rotary. Callers reportedly told investigators that the mail truck driver left the scene of the crash and headed north on Elm Street and a person, who was near one of the gas pumps, was injured.

Emergency crews responded and began providing first aid to the injured person while witnesses told police that driver of the mail truck hit the person at the gas pump, as well as other vehicles, and “narrowly missed striking the witnesses and employe

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