A 71-year-old man was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in the Bronx Thursday afternoon, police said.

The unidentified driver struck the victim near the intersection of East 138th Street and Exterior Street in Mott Haven at about 3 p.m., the NYPD said.

The driver sped away from the scene and has not been located.

Police and medics responded to the scene and found the man, whose identity has not been released, laying in the roadway with trauma to his head.

He was rushed to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.