Vancouver police are investigating after an elderly woman was hit and killed while crossing Main Street Wednesday morning.

Vancouver police are investigating after an elderly woman was hit and killed while crossing Main Street Wednesday morning.

The 83-year-old Vancouver woman was crossing East 30th Avenue along the east side of Main Street just after 11:30 a.m. when a black pickup truck making a right turn onto Main Street struck her at a low speed.

Paramedics took the woman to hospital but she died a short-time later.

The driver of the truck is cooperating with investigators.

This is the sixth pedestrian fatality of 2018.

Police are asking anyone with dash-cam footage, who may have been driving in the area on Wednesday between 11:20 a.m. and 11:40 a.m., to contact investigators at 604-717-3012