MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Detectives are looking for the vehicle that hit and killed a man early Saturday morning on a highway in Atwater.

According to Merced CHP, around 12:25 a.m. they responded to reports of a man who was hit by a vehicle that fled the scene on Highway 99, south of Westside Boulevard.

Responding officers reported finding a 34-year-old man from Atwater lying in the No. 2 lane of northbound Highway 99. Life-saving efforts were administered, but the man succumbed to his injuries.

Investigators report the man was walking on the highway for unknown reasons as a vehicle headed north in the No. 2 lane of the highway at an unknown rate of speed. The vehicle struck the pedestrian, who sustained fatal injuries, and continued northbound.

The victim in this crash has

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