MODESTO (CBS13) — Authorities are searching for the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run that killed a 71-year-old man in Modesto on Saturday night, the California Highway Patrol Modesto said.

CHP said officers received a call of a traffic collision just before 10:30 p.m. along Sturh Road, just west of McClintock Road.

The victim, a 71-year-old male pedestrian, was located lying unconscious in the roadway. Emergency personnel pronounced the man dead at the scene, CHP said.

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Officers said the driver fled the scene and the vehicle they are looking for is a sedan with a missing driver's side mirror and possible front end damage.

Anyone with information on the collision is asked to contact CHP at 209-356-2900.

No further information has been released at this time.