WRIGHT CITY — A man riding an electric scooter died after he was hit by a pickup truck Monday morning on Veterans Memorial Parkway, the Missouri Highway Patrol said.

The victim, 33, lived in Wright City, the patrol said.

The accident took place at 6:25 a.m. west of Highway H on the parkway, which runs parallel to Interstate 70.

The patrol said the driver of the truck — a man, 62, from Timpson, Texas — didn't notice the man on the scooter. Both were going westbound.

The patrol said the victim was taken to SSM St. Joseph Hospital in Lake Saint Louis, where he died. The patrol doesn't release the names of people in accidents.

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