35-year-old man hit and killed by semi-truck on I-96

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)โ€“ A 35-year-old man was hit and killed by a semi-truck on I-96 early Tuesday morning.

Michigan State Police First District reports in a social media post that troopers from the Lansing Post were sent to the eastbound I-96 near Okemos Road for a semi-truck crash involving a pedestrian.

Following the preliminary investigation and the collection of witness statements, police say that a 2016 Freightliner semi-truck with trailer, driven by a 54-year-old man from Westland, was traveling eastbound on I-96 when a 35-year-old man from Okemos โ€œentered the roadwayโ€ and was hit.

The 35-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene…

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