A 27-year-old man died when he was hit by a car on State Highway 94, near the Dipton-Castlerock Rd intersection, yesterday morning.
His was one of five traffic deaths in New Zealand at the weekend.
Acting Senior Sergeant Wing-wah Ng, of Invercargill, said the man died at the scene after being hit by a Mitsubishi vehicle at 7.25am.
The Otago Daily Times understands the man was a Filipino dairy worker.
The man and his friend had left a Lumsden house sometime after 4.30am, intending to walk to their home near Mossburn.
Police are appealing for information from anyone who saw the two men, either together or separately, walking north along State Highway 96 between Lumsden and the State Highway turnoff, or west along State Highway 94.
Acting Snr Sgt Ng said police wanted to speak to the occupants of a 4WD who took the dead man's friend to the crash scene.
A nearby resident, who asked not to be named, said the man had recently moved to the area and lived close to where he was killed.
"It's quite sad really ... He's a young fella. He hasn't been here long.
"From all accounts he's been in the district two months."
• A woman died and four others were taken to hospital after a six-vehicle crash on Auckland's Northwestern Motorway about 8.30pm on Saturday. The woman was a passenger in a car travelling the wrong way. The driver, an elderly man, was in a critical condition in Auckland Hospital.
• About 2.30am yesterday, a man was struck and killed by a truck in South Canterbury on State Highway 1 near Normanby, just south of Timaru.
• In Te Puke, one person was killed and five were injured after the car they were in hit a bridge about 8am yesterday.
• An 22-month-old girl was killed in a driveway by a vehicle driven by a family member in Weymouth, south Auckland, yesterday afternoon.
• In west Auckland, a 6-year-old girl suffered life-threatening head injuries after being struck by a car while crossing Great North Rd with her grandmother in Henderson shortly after 11am yesterday.
