Pedestrian injured after being hit by car on Big A Road

A Toccoa man was injured Tuesday afternoon when a car hit him as he was walking across one of the town’s main thoroughfares.

44-year-old Joseph Fusco was crossing Big A Road near Collins Road when a Ford Fusion hit him. The Georgia State Patrol says Fusco was not in a designated crossing area at the time of the collision.

Fusco sustained suspected serious injuries and was transported by ambulance to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville.

The driver of the car, 85-year-old Carroll Dulaney of Toccoa, was not injured.