NEW TOWN – A New Town man has been charged with criminal vehicular injury after striking a pedestrian in a parking lot west of New Town on Saturday.

According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol at 10:50 p.m., a Ford Five Hundred passenger car driven by a 60-year-old New Town man was backing away from a building. In the process of backing up, the car struck a pedestrian with the back bumper and knocked her to the ground. The pedestrian, an 84-year-old woman from New Town, was seriously injured and transported to a Minot hospital by the New Town Ambulance.

The driver of the Ford Five Hundred was charged with Class C felony criminal vehicular injury.

Names of those involved in the crash were not released at this time.

The crash remains under investigation by the Highway Patrol.