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Search Ensues After Elderly Man Dies in Fatal Hit-and-Run Accident On South Coast

An elderly man is hit and killed on a morning walk and the search is on for the person responsible. 

Family members in a Goleta Valley neighborhood have confirmed 88 year old Miguel Gutierrez Vargas has died from his injuries sustained in a hit and run accident Thursday morning.

Vargas was a pedestrian in a neighborhood off Hollister and Walnut. He was walking on San Lorenzo when he was hit and left in the roadway.

An eyewitness told the California Highway Patrol a late model maroon Chevy truck was involved and left by turning down the next street.

The CHP is actively looking for that vehicle which it says has front end damage. Email's with information on the accident have been going out to residents in the area.

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