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Updated: 5:01 AM Aug 19, 2008
Runner Hit by Car
Police are investigating the death of a 20-year-old man hit while running in the road.
Posted: 3:07 AM Aug 18, 2008
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Police are investigating the death of 20-year-old Matthew Mathias from Medford who was hit by a car while out for a jog.

It happened around 8:30 Sunday night in the northbound lane of State Highway 13 in the Taylor County town of Medford.

The Taylor County Dispatch Center received a report of an unknown person in dark clothing running in the road.

Officers were en route when another call came in from a driver who said he had just hit someone on the road.

Mathias was brought to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.