A 39-year-old man was airlifted to hospital in Halifax on Monday after he was struck by a dump truck in Nova Scotia’s Cumberland County.
Nova Scotia RCMP say the collision happened around 7:25 p.m. along Kolbec Road in Kolbec, N.S., about five kilometres from Oxford.
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Police say he was transported to the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax with serious injuries by EHS LifeFlight.
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The driver of the dump truck was not injured, according to police.
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The cause of the crash is still being investigated.
The section of Kolbec Road where the crash occurred was closed for several hours.
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