A 23-year-old man from Elie, Man., has died from injuries he sustained after falling off the outside of a vehicle as it was driving down a highway, according to RCMP.

Headingley RCMP and paramedics were called around 3 a.m. CT Saturday to Provincial Road 248 in Elie, where they learned the man had been riding on the outside of a Ford Escape.

The man had been hanging off the exterior of the sport utility vehicle as it was driving on the highway's northbound lanes, according to police.

The man was transported to a Winnipeg hospital, where he died of his injuries on Sunday afternoon, say RCMP.

A 29-year-old Elie man who was driving the SUV originally faced charges of impaired driving causing bodily harm, dangerous operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm, impaired driving over .08 causing bodily harm, and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.

RCMP say they are now upgrading those charges to impaired driving causing death, dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death, and impaired driving over .08 causing death, as well as failing to stop at the scene of an accident.

The driver has been released on the condition that he appear in court on March 19 in Winnipeg. Police said they cannot name the driver until the charges have been formally laid.

Elie is located about 45 kilometres west of Winnipeg.