HOLCOMB, Kan. (KAKE) - Police are investigating an accident that left a 19-year-old woman seriously injured Friday evening.

Around 7 p.m., officers responded to an accident involving a vehicle and a pedestrian at Main and Jones. A preliminary investigation indicated that the 17-year-old driver, who told police that the sun was in his eyes, did not see the woman crossing Jones and struck her with his car. The woman was in the crosswalk but did not activate the flashing crossing lights at the crossing. She was taken to the hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.

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