Man struck, killed while wandering through highway traffic
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A 27-year-old man is dead after police said he was hit by a car while walking in traffic on a rural Manitoba highway on Saturday morning.
Mounties from the Steinbach detachment received reports of the man walking in traffic on Provincial Road 311, in the RM of Ste. Anne at 6:15 a.m., Manitoba RCMP said in a news release Sunday.
Police were responding to the call when they received an update saying the man had been struck by a vehicle. The man, from the RM of Hanover, was pronounced dead on scene, RCMP said.
The driver of the vehicle, a 61-year-old male from Steinbach, remained at the scene, police said.
No other injuries were reported, and the investigation is ongoing.