A Kansas University library staff member was flown by air ambulance to the hospital this morning after being struck by a car while walking in a crosswalk.

James Helyar, graphics curator at the Spencer Research Library, was injured in the accident, which happened about 7:50 a.m. in the crosswalk east of the Campanile on the KU campus, said Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office.

The car was going east and the driver, a 25-year-old male KU staff member, told police he didn’t see Helyar because the sun was in his eyes, Bailey said.

A helicopter landed at Memorial Stadium and took Helyar to a Kansas City hospital. There was no information yet this afternoon on his injuries, Bailey said.