A 59-year-old man is dead after a southbound Dodge Ram pickup struck him in the roadway near the 700 block of North Valley Mills Drive in Waco at about 9:40 p.m. Tuesday. He was rushed to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to police.
The pickup was traveling south on North Valley Mills Drive when it hit the man, according to fox44news.com. The outlet reported that the driver of the pickup stopped at the scene and was cooperating with investigators. The man had not been publicly identified, and his name was being withheld while police worked to notify his next of kin, per the same report. KXXV similarly reported that, according to the Waco Police Department, no arrests had been made in connection with the crash.
Crash Investigation
The circumstances that put the pedestrian in the roadway that night have not been detailed. What is confirmed is narrow but consistent across reporting: the time, the location, the vehicle involved, and that the driver remained on scene to speak with officers.
The crash adds to a string of recent pedestrian-involved collisions in the Waco area. Five calendar days earlier, a 33-year-old Waco man, Samuel Gee, was killed when a northbound 2015 Ram 1500 struck him as he ran southbound along the northbound shoulder of FM 2490, according to KWTX. Texas DPS troopers responded to that crash at about 5:45 a.m., and Gee was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of that Ram also stayed put until authorities arrived, and the cause of that crash remained under investigation, KWTX reported.
Pattern Or Coincidence
Waco has seen other serious pedestrian crashes in years past, including a case in which police identified a 59-year-old man who was struck and killed by a BMW near the intersection of Waco Drive and North 25th Street, according to the Waco Tribune-Herald. The Texas Department of Transportation has a traffic safety data portal.
For now, the man struck on North Valley Mills Drive remains unidentified publicly, and police have not announced any arrests. The investigation remains active.
