A 20-year-old woman is in hospital with serious injuries after she was mowed down by a car while waiting for a bus in Montreal East Tuesday afternoon.

The woman was waiting for a bus at the corner of Notre-Dame St. E near Hinton Ave. when the collision occurred.

Witnesses say the driver was trying to avoid crashing into another car when he struck the woman; that a car has stopped abruptly in front of him and he attempted to avoid it. Instead, he struck the bus shelter and the victim.

The victim sustained lower-body injuries.

No one else was injured.