KITCHENER — A pedestrian struck by an sport utility vehicle in Kitchener Thursday night was charged with failing to use a crosswalk.

On Thursday at 8 p.m., an SUV travelling east on Charles Street near Benton Street hit a pedestrian who had stepped off the curb in front of the vehicle, said Waterloo Regional Police.

Police said the 50-year-old man from Kitchener was hit after attempting to cross south on Charles Street.

He was taken to Grand River Hospital with serious but non-life threatening injures.