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Driver flees after construction worker struck in Quinte West: OPP

FILE photo. Quinte West OPP say a vehicle fled the scene after striking a construction worker on Wednesday. Getty Images

A construction worker was taken to hospital after being struck by a vehicle that police say fled the scene just north of Belleville on Wednesday morning.

Quinte West OPP say around 8:30 a.m. construction workers were using flags to slow traffic due to maintenance work at the intersection of Foxboro-Stirling and Wallbridge Loyalist roads, north of Belleville.

Police say a Black Dodge Ram pickup truck — without licence plates — travelled through the intersection and struck a construction worker.

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The victim was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries, OPP said.

The suspect vehicle was last seen travelling southbound on Wallbridge Loyalist Road.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or leave a tip anonymously via Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

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