The driver of a Toyota Prius struck and killed a pedestrian Monday on the shoulder of a Nipomo road. [SLO Tribune]
San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies found the victim’s body lying in grass and brush after receiving a call about a possibly injured or intoxicated person on Thompson Avenue near Sheehy Road.
A light green Toyota Prius, model year 2004-09, traveling southbound on Thompson Avenue drove onto the right shoulder of the road and struck the pedestrian.
The time of the collision remains unknown, and law enforcement withheld the name of the victim to notify relatives.

