GREATER SHEPPARTON: Man dies after Toolamba hit-run
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man after he was struck by a vehicle in Toolamba on Wednesday (Feb. 26).
The 53-year-old Invermay Park man and a friend attended a bush track near Pyke Rd to collect his Ford sedan, which had broken down, about 2.20pm.
Upon arrival they noticed several men in the vicinity of the man’s vehicle.
There was a verbal altercation between the parties before the group of men returned to their vehicles.
The 53-year-old was then struck by a Mitsubishi Triton utility.
The man was airlifted to hospital where he later died.
The driver of the Mitsubishi, a 32-year-old Mooroopna man, fled the scene but was arrested a short time later in Mooroopna.
He was expected to be interviewed.

