UPDATE ON INJURED PEDESTRIAN:
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AN UNIDENTIFIED man who was seen running naked on the Great Western Highway yesterday is in a critical condition after being struck by a b-double truck. At 2.10pm Lithgow police received a number of calls from concerned motorists reporting a man without clothing running across the west bound lane at Bowenfels. Baffled drivers swerved and slowed down to avoid the man who continued to run directly alongside passing vehicles. He is then reported to have stopped in the break down lane by the side of the road. The driver of the truck that hit the man, a 45-year-old male from Bligh Park, was travelling the route and after hearing warnings from fellow truckies travelling the route on his CB slowed down to 30 km/h as he approached the area. The driver reported seeing the naked man standing on the side of the road as he approached but could do nothing when the man suddenly stepped directly in front of his moving b-double truck. The man was flung some metres backward and suffered severe head injuries as a result. An off duty police officer and Lithgow paramedics were the first on the scene and tended the injured man until an Air Ambulance helicopter arrived. He was soon airlifted to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition. Police were unable to identify the man given his lack of personal affects and it is unknown at this stage whether the man was under the influence of a prohibited substance. The man remains in Westmead Hospital in a critical condition.