Police set up highway checkpoints to find hit-and-run driver

OPP in the Marathon area have set up a pair of check-points on the Trans-Canada Highway, as the search continues for a hit-and-run driver.

The checkpoints are a response to an incident that took place Monday morning in which a construction worker was struck by a vehicle. The driver of the vehicle fled the scene on foot.

Police describe the suspect as a six-foot tall Black man who was driving a vehicle borrowed from Alberta.

As officers continue to check east and westbound vehicles, police have also issued a caution to motorists against picking up hitchhikers, and to area residents to keep homes, outbuildings, camps and vehicles locked.

Two K9 units are also searching the area around the crash scene.

Meanwhile the injured worker, 23-year-old Jake Dumas of Marathon, who is the son of the town's Mayor Rick Dumas, is now listed in stable condition at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre with a head injury.