A Lower Lonsdale man is in intensive care after being struck by a vehicle and thrown from his mobility scooter.
The incident happened just after 5:30 p.m. on Saturday at the corner of St. Georges Avenue and East Second Street in North Vancouver.
A witness told investigating officers he saw the man on his scooter driving in the middle of the road when the truck turned left onto St. Georges and collided with him, according to police.
"He sustained head injuries. He's still in intensive care," said Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman, on Tuesday afternoon. So far, there is no word on whether there will be any charges.
"Who has the right of way at that point? That will be determined through the investigation," De Jong said. "The footnote is both the truck driver and the scooter driver need to comply with right-of-ways, rules and regulations of the road, signage, speed limits and those sorts of things."
North Vancouver RCMP have been responding to an inordinate number of collisions with pedestrians since winter began.
Contributing factors have been darkness, bad weather, distracted driving and pedestrians walking out onto the road without paying attention. But De Jong acknowledged, those are perennial problems and, so far, there's no theory on why 2014-2015 has had so many pedestrian injuries.
"I don't think you could nail it down to one thing," he said.
