A 53-year old man died on Saturday evening after being struck by a pickup truck on Provincial Road 280 18 kilometres west of Split Lake.

Thompson RCMP said the man was walking in the middle of the gravel highway at night when he was struck.

The 55-year old woman who was driving the pickup truck and her passengers weren’t injured in the collision. RCMP noted the driver was sober.

The RCMP’s forensic collision reconstruction team and the criminal crash investigate team are assisting the investigation.