Dee Why: Man, 85, dies in hospital after allegedly being struck by car leaving driveway on Dee Why Pde

An elderly man has died in hospital after being struck by a car as it allegedly left a driveway on Sydney’s northern beaches earlier this week.

Emergency services work to stabilise the 85-year-old. Picture: Jim O’Rourke

An elderly man has died in hospital after being struck by a car as it allegedly left a driveway on Sydney’s northern beaches.

Witnesses told police the 85-year-old was walking on a footpath near the Dee Why town centre at about 5.45pm on Tuesday when he was hit by the vehicle.

He suffered massive head injuries after the impact knocked him into the roadway, adjacent to a driveway to a block of units on Dee Why Pde.

The location of the crash on Dee Why Pde. Picture: Jim O’Rourke

It is understood the man may have been pulling a small, two-wheeled shopping trolley, which contained a walking stick, at the time.

Emergency services stabilised the unconscious man and drove him to a carpark at James Meehan Reserve, behind the Dee Why Surf Life Saving Club, where a NSW Ambulance emergency helicopter picked him up.

A medical team from the NSW Ambulance emergency helicopter, which landed at James Meehan Reserve, Dee Why, helped treat the critically injured man before he was taken by road to Royal North Shore Hospital. Picture: Jim O’Rourke

He was placed in an induced coma and taken by ambulance to Royal North Shore Hospital in a critical condition.

On Thursday, police said they had been told the previous day the man had died in hospital.

The driver of the car - a 75-year-old man - was not injured in the crash and was taken to hospital on Tuesday evening for mandatory testing.

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