A man in his 60s is dead after a hit-and-run in Mississauga on Tuesday evening, and police are appealing for the driver of the vehicle to turn himself in.
Emergency crews were called to the Winston Churchill Boulevard and Dundas Street West intersection just after 6 p.m. for reports of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle.
Const. Tyler Bell with Peel Regional Police says a 1999-2005 model year Chevrolet Silverado 1500 series pickup truck, two-tone in colour, was going southbound on Winston Churchill and making a right hand turn westbound onto Dundas when it struck a pedestrian who was in the crosswalk. Bell said they had substantial dashcam footage from the area, along with CCTV camera footage of the incident.
“We have multiple angles of footage of this collision. There’s absolutely no doubt that you have hit somebody and you have killed somebody,” Bell said in an update on Wednesday.
“I’ve looked at the video, it’s appalling video, and there’s no question that this individual hit this individual and they didn’t stop without checking on the wellbeing of this person.”
“It is a matter of time before we are knocking on your door, so seek legal advice and turn yourself into police.”
Bell added that while the investigation has yet to determine if the pedestrian had the right of way signal while crossing the street, motorists making a turn have a duty to ensure that they can make that turn safely and without any obstruction in the crosswalk.
Police have not identified the victim.
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