Uniontown police said a West Virginia man seriously injured when a car struck him Monday has been upgraded to fair condition.

Police Capt. David J. Rutter said Barry Nicholson, 33, of Fairmont was walking on Penn Street in Uniontown when a car driven by William Green of Fairchance struck him.

Rutter said Nicholson was flown by medical helicopter to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va., for treatment.

Rutter said Tuesday that hospital personnel had upgraded Nicholson's condition to fair. He noted that Nicholson suffered a fractured skull, a broken back in three places, a crushed vertebrate, several broken ribs, a broken pelvis and a fractured femur in the accident.

Rutter said that Nicholson also lost part of a toe in the accident.

Rutter said Green's car also struck Sara Coddington, 23, of Uniontown. She suffered minor injuries to her left arm.

Green told police that he was looking at his gas gauge when he was driving on Penn Street, and when he looked up, Nicholson and Coddington were in front of him.

Coddington and Nicholson are both students at Laurel Business Institute (LBI) in Uniontown and were crossing the street from one LBI building to another when the crash occurred.

Rutter, who is the police department's crash reconstruction expert, said the accident remains under investigation.

An employee from the Uniontown Street Department was repainting the crosswalk on Penn Street Tuesday morning.