Police are investigating an accident involving a pedestrian and a school bus Thursday afternoon outside a busy north Toronto shopping mall.

Police said a man in his 70s was struck by the school bus on Fairview Mall Drive and Godstone Road around 3:00 p.m.

The man was taken to a nearby hospital with undisclosed injuries.

There were no children on the bus at the time of the accident.

The Toronto Police Traffic Services unit is investigating.