HURRICANE, Washington County — A child was hospitalized after being struck by a school bus Friday morning in Hurricane, police said.

Officers responded around 11:30 a.m. to a report of an auto-pedestrian accident in the area of 700 West and 1000 South, according to the Hurricane City Police Department. Witnesses told police the 11-year-old may have run into the road before being hit.

"Initial reports from on-scene witnesses indicate that an 11-year-old Hurricane intermediate student ran across the roadway and was struck by a Washington County School District bus traveling north on 700 West," police said in a news release.

Medics from the Hurricane Valley Fire District arrived and rendered care to the child, who police said was taken to a hospital with a possible head injury.

The school

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