Police are looking for the driver who hit a pedestrian in southwest Calgary early Friday morning and then fled, sending the man to hospital with a head injury and closing northbound 14th Street for hours.

Det. Jody Cross said officers responded to the intersection of 14th Street and Southland Drive S.W. around 5:20 a.m. and located the injured man, who was on his feet at the time.

"We got out and found the victim actually running in the southbound lanes of 14th Street," Cross said. "It appears he's got a pretty good head injury."

The man was taken to hospital in what appeared to be non-life-threatening condition, but doctors were doing tests to determine that his injuries were indeed not more severe.

Cross said police were keeping the northbound lanes of 14th Street closed pending word from doctors on the man's condition.

The lanes reopened around 7:30 a.m.

The driver left the scene and Cross said police had several different initial descriptions of the vehicle.