Newport — A Goshen, N.H., police officer responding to a call hit and injured an off-duty Sullivan County sheriff’s deputy on Unity Road in Newport during Thursday’s snowstorm, New Hampshire State Police said on Friday.

Michael Batista, who works part time for both Goshen and Newport police and also as a full-time sheriff’s deputy in Sullivan County, struck 68-year-old Newport resident Thomas Cummings near Cummings’ home around 5:45 p.m. on Thursday.

Batista, 42, was in his marked Goshen Ford Explorer cruiser en route to a call in town at the time.

Cummings had just parked his vehicle in his driveway and was walking southbound in the road to reach the walkway to his home when Batista struck him, according to a Friday news release from state police.

“The weather conditions were treacherous with blowing and drifting snow causing ‘white out’ conditions,” the release said. “The cruiser was in its lane when it collided with (Cummings).”

Weather was a “significant” factor in the collision, state police said in the release.

Cummings was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for what ambulance personnel determined to be non-life-threatening injures, according to the release. A DHMC spokesman on Friday afternoon said Cummings had been treated and released.

A man who answered the phone at a number listed for Cummings declined to comment.

A message left for Goshen Police Chief Edward Andersen wasn’t returned. Sullivan County Sheriff John Simonds said Batista was uninjured in the incident and was working on Friday.

“There is no internal investigation,” Simonds said. He referred further comment to state police, the agency conducing the investigation into what took place.

Messages left for State Police Sgt. William DiLegge and Trooper William Neilsen, the officials who are handling the case, weren’t returned.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call New Hampshire state police at 603-223-8494.

Jordan Cuddemi can be reached at jcuddemi@vnews.com or 603-727-3248.