VAN NUYS — A 50-year-old man who was apparently laying in the road in Van Nuys was pronounced dead at the scene after a woman drove her car over him, police said today.

The accident took place about 10:45 p.m. Monday, at 6800 Haskell Ave., according to a desk officer at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Valley Traffic Division and Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart.

“The woman driver said she saw what looked like a pile of clothes in the street just before she ran over them,” the desk officer said. “Once she realized it was a person, she stopped at the scene and cooperated with police.”

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. It was not immediately clear if the man was already dead when he was struck by the car, the desk officer said.

A final determination on the cause of death will have to be made by the coroner’s office. The victim’s name was withheld pending family notification.

Drugs and or alcohol were not a factor in the crash, police said.