Police are investigating after the driver of a vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in the City of North Vancouver Thursday evening.
The North Vancouver RCMP says officers responded to reports of the collision around 7:30 p.m. on Esplanade West near Waterfront Park.
Mounties have not disclosed many details, but confirmed that a pedestrian died.
Regarding the cause of the crash, police said, “causal factors are not yet known.”
Images from Thursday night show that police stopped an articulated TransLink bus on the scene.
(CityNews image, John Ackermann)
Esplanade West was temporarily closed between Forbes and Chesterfield avenues for several hours.
Anyone with any information or dashcam video to share is urged to contact the North Vancouver RCMP at 604-985-1311.
—With files from John Ackermann