The Washington Police Department is investigating an incident of a woman being assaulted and then hit by a vehicle.

According to the Washington County Communications Center, at 2:15 p.m. Monday dispatch received a call that a woman was walking along North 5th Avenue when someone got out of a passing vehicle, assaulted her, and then ran her over with the vehicle. Washington Police and Washington County Ambulance responded to the scene. There was no transportation by ambulance. Police advised the incident had happened in the area of the middle school. Names of those involved have not been released.