A bicyclist died after being hit by a car on St. Charles Avenue on Monday morning, according to New Orleans officials.

The man was riding his bicycle at St. Charles and Polymnia Street — near the Lower Garden District — when a vehicle struck him at about 5:05 a.m., authorities said Tuesday. The man was taken to University Medical Center in critical condition and later was pronounced dead there.

Additional details about the accident weren't immediately available, and officials haven't identified the cyclist or the motorist.

But in a joint statement, the cycling advocacy groups Bike Uneasy and Stolen Bikes NOLA said the victim was Robert “Hog” Blair, a “fixture … known by everyone” along that section of St. Charles.

Blair's son, Robert Blair II, said Tuesday that his father remained on life support after being declared brain dead. But Blair's family expected to remove him from life support later in the day, and loved ones would gather to remember him at Lucky's Bar in the 1600 block of St. Charles, where he was a regular, the son said.

The statement on Facebook said the groups would place a white "ghost" bicycle memorial on the St. Charles neutral ground near where Blair was hit.

Cycling activists have placed "ghost" bike memorials at many spots around the city where cyclists have been killed.

The groups said the dedication of Blair’s memorial would follow a ride starting at New Orleans City Hall at 3 p.m. on Nov. 2, when the Mexican custom of the Day of the Dead is celebrated.

The statement from Bike Uneasy and Stolen Bikes NOLA said advocates had unsuccessfully asked city officials to put a bike lane on the stretch of St. Charles where Blair was hit when roadway repairs were completed there in 2017.

The groups noted that Blair died less than eight months after a motorist drunkenly plowed through a line of bicyclists on Esplanade Avenue after the Endymion parade March 2. Sharee Walls, 27, and David Hynes, 31, died at the scene, and seven others were injured.

The motorist in that case, Tashonty Toney, pleaded guilty Monday to vehicular negligent injuring and hit-and-run driving. He still faces vehicular homicide counts in connection with the deaths of Walls and Hynes.

Man who hit, killed bicyclists on Esplanade pleads guilty to some charges, but trial still to come The motorist who drunkenly plowed through a line of bicyclists on Esplanade Avenue after the Endymion parade in March pleaded guilty as charge…

Bike Uneasy and Stolen Bikes NOLA said such deaths “will continue to happen until this city decides that pedestrians, cyclists and people who use public transportation deserve to get home to their families safely.”