 On Saturday, February 4th, 44-year-old Pikeville resident Keene Michael Johnson was struck and killed by a car on U.S. 23. It took place near the community trust bank tower as the driver was heading southbound during the afternoon. Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene by the Pike County Coroner's Office. Our dispatch center received several calls, nine-on-one calls, referenced to a pedestrian that had been struck by a vehicle traveling southbound near exit 24 in the cut-through area. First responders arrived on scene, located the victim. The Pike County Coroner's Office was called to the scene at that time and pronounced the victim deceased at the scene due to sustaining serious injuries. The vehicle that struck the pedestrian stayed on scene and they were not injured with the collision. Officer Condas' courage is crossing the highway for any reason. As for the driver involved in the incident, there are currently no charges being filed. That's probably the worst road you could ever try to cross in this county for sure is U.S. 23. It's just a very busy highway. It's a federal highway. In fact, you're not supposed to even be hitchhiking on that road. That's against ordinance and basically against the law. You're not supposed to even be the Department of Transportation. They don't want you to park your cars on the shoulders of those roadways. People want to give permission for that and say, can we park her? No, we can't give her permission. That's state property. By the time we got there, by the time first responders got there, that the victim was deceased. So there was basically pronounced deceased there. So it's a fatal, of course. So it's going to be investigated by this department. Officer Tommy Fouts is a reconstructionist. He's in charge of the investigation. So at this time, we don't see any, foresee any kind of criminal charges. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.