Person hit, killed on Highway 99 after reports of man running in traffic

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A idiosyncratic was deed and killed Monday conscionable aft midnight connected Highway 99 aft aggregate reports of a antheral moving successful and retired of traffic.

According to the California Highway Patrol, a Toyota Prius stopped successful the accelerated lane connected southbound Highway 99, heading eastbound connected Highway 180. The operator was reportedly seen moving from the area.

Officers recovered the Prius unoccupied, with its motor moving and the driver's doorway open. CHP said the conveyance did not look to beryllium progressive successful a clang and showed nary damage. It was removed from the roadway.

About 35 minutes later, astatine 12:45 a.m., CHP received calls astir idiosyncratic moving done lanes of postulation connected southbound Highway 99 adjacent Fresno Street.

A fewer minutes aft that, callers reported the antheral had been deed by a conveyance southbound of Belmont Avenue.

Investigators determined the person, a 37-year-old man, had been walking successful the postulation lanes erstwhile a 22-year-old antheral driving a Subaru Impreza deed him.

Emergency crews pronounced the antheral dormant astatine the scene.

CHP says the Subaru operator was nether the power of alcohol. He was arrested and transported to the infirmary for his injuries.

It is not yet known whether drugs oregon intoxicant were a origin successful the man's death.

The clang remains nether investigation.