Iowa teen suffers life-threatening injuries after truck strike near school

A 16-year-old Waterloo West High School student suffered life-threatening injuries after a pickup truck struck her near East Ridgeway Avenue and Baltimore Street at about 7:24 a.m. Police said she had been dropped off nearby and was crossing the intersection when she was hit. Witnesses reported that the driver initially continued without stopping, but bystanders flagged him down; he remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators. The student was taken to a children’s hospital in Iowa City, and her condition was not publicly updated. School counselors were made available to students, including witnesses to the collision. Police also responded to a separate pedestrian collision later that morning in which an adult woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries.