Another person was struck by a car while using the cross walk to the Cosmosphere along 11th Avenue Tuesday morning. According to 911, the accident happened just before 7:45 a-m, when an east bound car struck the pedestrian.

The woman, 18-year-old Alexis Martin, was taken by Reno County E-M-S to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, then airlifted to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita for treatment of a hip injury. The driver of the car, 17-year-old Michael Tharp, was uninjured.

Police say no citations were issued, and speed, texting, drugs or alcohol are not a factor in the accident.

The cross walk has been the scene of several similar accidents in the past, despite yellow flashing lights warning motorist to yield to pedestrians. Other similar flashing lights are at the cross walks at 12th and 13th streets along Plum, on the westside of the HCC Campus. The city has been reluctant to install stop lights at the cross walk because of the short distance between it and the 11th and Plum intersection, just to the west.