Suspect charged with impaired driving after pedestrian struck, critically injured in rural Manitoba

A Pine River man is in police custody and facing impaired driving charges after a pedestrian was critically injured in a hit-and-run incident early Monday morning.

Mounties responded to a report of the incident around 2:25 a.m. and learned a 36-year-old man was hit by a vehicle on the 500 block of Second Avenue in Pine River, a rural community located about 80 kilometres north of Dauphin, Manitoba RCMP said in a news release Wednesday.

The pedestrian was transported to the hospital in Winnipeg in critical condition, police said.

The driver of the vehicle left the scene. Police located and arrested a suspect a few hours later, RCMP said.

A 46-year-old man from Pine River is facing multiple driving offences, including failing to stop after an accident causing bodily harm and impaired driving.