A male pedestrian in his 50s has died in hospital after being struck by a transit bus and then another vehicle in Whitby Thursday morning.
Durham Regional Police said they received a call around 6:30 a.m. of a male hit by a bus on the Brock Street overpass at Highway 401.
Police said the pedestrian was then struck by a second vehicle.
Officials said the man was in the middle of the road when he was hit by both vehicles.
“The initial information is he’s seen basically in the middle of the road,” police spokesman Dave Selby said. “That’s what we’re looking at. Why he was there at that time.”
The pedestrian was rushed to Sunnybrook Hospital with life-threatening injuries and succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
There’s no word yet on who was at fault and the investigation is ongoing.
Police said the pedestrian fatality is the first in Durham Region this year after recording none in 2016.
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