Pedestrian dies following single-vehicle collision

The pedestrian involved in a Central Avenue collision has died.

Thunder Bay Police Service officers responded to a call about a single-vehicle collision around 1 p.m. Wednesday. Paramedics rushed a man to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre with severe head injuries.

The man died just before 4 p.m.

Police traffic Sgt. Glenn Porter said the man didn’t have identification and they are now searching for any information about him. The man was on the road when he was struck by a passing vehicle.

“We know that he suffered some serious head injuries,” Porter said. “We’re hoping someone in the public can assist us in identifying the man. It is important to carry identification. The hospital staff to do treatment needed to know who the patient was. We were unable to provide that information.”

Porter described the man as 50-year-old Caucasian weighing near 200-pounds. The man was balding with short brownish-red hair, he had a goatee and was missing part of his left index finger. He also had a bent middle left finger.

The victim wore blue jeans, grey wool socks and a blue and tan long sleeve shirt at the time of the incident.

Next of kin cannot be notified until the man is identified. Anyone with information is asked to call police, he said.

Debris was scattered on the road behind a black Nissan X-terra, which had a hat resting on the windshield and hood, a pair of eyeglasses between the rear wheels.

A pool of what appeared to be blood was also visible on the street.

Police spoke to the driver but no charges have been laid.