Police have made an arrest after a driver allegedly hit a pedestrian and crashed into a Shoppers Drug Mart in downtown Toronto early Tuesday morning.

The driver crashed into the store on Yonge St., north of College St., either before or after striking the pedestrian at about 12:40 a.m., police said in a news release.

The 50-year-old pedestrian was hit a few blocks away in the Gerrard and Elizabeth Sts. area. He was taken to hospital in serious but non-life-threatening condition.

The driver fled the scene in his Honda before being arrested in the Dundas St. W. and Elizabeth St. area.

Hozeir Kazemi, 31, of Toronto, has been charged with one count of failure to stop after an accident causing bodily harm, one count of dangerous operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm and one count of operation of a vehicle while impaired causing bodily harm.

With files from Jacob Lorinc