A man believed to be a transient walking across the parking lot of a San Jose recycling facility was struck and killed by a work truck Thursday afternoon, according to San Jose police.

At about 2:25 p.m., San Jose officers responded to a report of a truck-pedestrian collision at the Sims Metal Management facility in the 1900 block of Monterey Highway. A man was pushing a shopping cart across the parking lot, fell to the ground and was run over