A 79 year old woman from Steinbach is dead after being hit by a pickup truck on Steinbach's Main Street Monday morning. Emergency personnel were called to the collision around eleven o'clock. It happened near Southwood Drive, involving a pedestrian and truck. 

Steinbach RCMP report the woman died at the scene. The 64 year old male driver of the truck from La Broquerie was uninjured and remained at the scene.

A traffic analyst attended and is assisting with the investigation in order to establish the contributing factors. At this time alcohol has been ruled out.

Main Street from Kroeker Avenue to Goosen Avenue was closed in both directions until three o'clock Monday afternoon.

No further details are available at this time.

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