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UPDATE: Man dies after being hit by truck in south Lethbridge alley

UPDATE: Police have located the yellow Dodge truck. At this time no arrests have been made in connection with the collision and the investigation is ongoing.

BACKGROUND

Lethbridge Police are investigating after a person was hit and killed by a vehicle in a south side alley.

Just after 4:30 pm Monday (June 1), police and EMS were called after reports of a collision between a pick-up truck and a pedestrian.

It happened along the 900 block of 13th Street South.

LPS say when officers arrived a woman had left the truck and was attending to the victim, however a man also inside the vehicle took off before police got there.

Witnesses also reported a man, who had been walking with the victim, ran away from the scene as well.
The victim, a 30 year old man, was transported to hospital and later died.

The matter remains under investigation and police are currently searching for a yellow 2004 Dodge Ram truck with Alberta license plate VNH26.

Anyone with information is asked to call Lethbridge Police.

Names of those involved have not been released.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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