Hautes-Pyrenees - A truck crashes into a driver on the A64 motorway.

He was walking on the highway.

Hautes-Pyrenees - A truck crashes into a driver on the A64 motorway.

He was walking on the highway. After the tragic death of a man in his forties, on Monday evening at the Hautes-Pyrenees motorway A64, many questions remain. According to "La Depeche du Midi", the pedestrian was struck by a truck carrying heavy goods in the Bayonne-Tarbes direction. It happened near the Lanespede Viduct.

The Tarbes Gendarmerie stated that they do not know the identity or reason for the victim's walk on the highway. The victim's vehicle was not found. Investigators still are trying to determine the circumstances that caused the victim to cross the highway without a permit.

Rescuers who arrived on the scene could not save the victim. The victim, a 40 year-old truck driver, was shocked. He was taken to Lannemezan. Investigators continue to investigate the tragedy.