A University staff member was injured yesterday afternoon after being struck by a car at the intersection of 34th and Walnut streets.
According to police reports, the man, identified by the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as Ira Winston, the executive director of computing and technology for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School of Fine Arts, was crossing the intersection at about 12:30 p.m. when a car ran the red light and struck him.
The University of Pennsylvania Police Department was notified of the accident and dispatched to the scene. Winston was taken to HUP with an open fracture in his leg.
Winston underwent surgery on his leg sometime yesterday. HUP officials could not say when Winston would be released from the hospital or comment on his condition.
Winston received both his B.S. in computer science and his master's degree at Penn, in 1980 and 1983 respectively, and has been with SEAS computing since 1983.
Winston's wife Flaura also works for the University as a professor of pediatrics.
The last time a pedestrian was hit on campus was in April, when a 15-year-old girl attending a model Congress event at Penn was struck by a car near the Wawa at 36th and Chestnut streets. The visiting high school student was taken to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with injuries to her legs and shoulders, the worst of which was a broken arm. The girl did not have the right of way to cross the street.
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