Police respond to car-pedestrian accident Thursday morning

Posted: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 5:23 PM

Decorah Police responded to a car-pedestrian accident on Thursday morning.

Police say 52-year-old Betsy Busch had just finished placing an informational sign on the northeast corner of the College Drive/Locust Road intersection shortly after 9:30 Thursday morning. She went to cross the street to return to her vehicle and was struck by a car driven by 19-year-old Tyler Barth of Decorah.

Busch refused medical attention at the scene and instead drove herself to the hospital. Barth was not ticketed.