The Nova Scotia Response Team has been called in to investigate the death of a pedestrian who was hit by an RCMP police vehicle on Wednesday night.
Police said in a press release that the Antigonish RCMP responded to a signal that a man was walking on Highway 104 shortly after 10:30 p.m., “probably in traffic.”
Police said an RCMP officer hit the man with his police car while patrolling the Addington Forks area to search for the person.
Antigonish, a 22-year-old man, has been pronounced dead on the spot.
Police said Thursday morning that a man also said he had collided the night before on Highway 104 in the same area when he hit an unknown object.
“The time frame we are working with is similar,” Chap. RCMP spokesman Chris Marshall said the two clashes.
The Serious Incident Response Team is leading an investigation into the RCMP car crash, while the RCMP will work with police oversight to determine if the two incidents are related, a spokesman said Thursday.
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