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Lethbridge man charged with giving false statement after pedestrian hit by vehicle

LETHBRIDGE, AB – Lethbridge Police have charged a 33 year old city man in connection with a vehicle hitting a pedestrian downtown.

It happened at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street South on Tuesday (Jan. 5).

A woman was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Police had originally asked the public for assistance in locating the driver and vehicle involved.

The driver has been charged under the Traffic Safety Act with making a false statement; failing to provide required accident information; and failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

He faces an automatic court appearance which is set for March.

His name has not been released.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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