Cyclist dead following hit and run in Kindersley, Sask.

A 20-year-old man is charged with impaired driving causing death and failing to stop for a collision causing death after a cyclist was struck and killed by a vehicle in Kindersley on Saturday. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press - image credit)
A 20-year-old man is charged with impaired driving causing death and failing to stop for a collision causing death after a cyclist was struck and killed by a vehicle in Kindersley on Saturday. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press - image credit)

A 21-year-old man from Kindersley, Sask., is dead after he was hit by a car while on his bicycle, police say.

RCMP received a report of an injured cyclist on Railway Avenue at around 5 a.m. Saturday, according to an RCMP news release. Kindersley is about 200 kilometres west of Saskatoon.

Paramedics declared the man dead at the scene.

The driver had fled the scene, police say. He was found and arrested in a residence in Kindersley about an hour later.

The 20-year-old man is charged with impaired driving causing death and failing to stop for a collision causing death.

He is scheduled to appear in Kindersley provincial court on May 21.