Boy, 3, dead after truck strikes family at marked crosswalk in southwest Edmonton
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A three-year-old boy is dead after he and his family were struck by a truck at a marked crosswalk in southwest Edmonton Thursday.
A 39-year-old woman and her two young children, the boy and a seven-year-old girl, were hit as they crossed the street in the Allard neighbourhood around 5 p.m., Edmonton police said in a statement.
A 2019 Ford F-150 truck was travelling north on Allard Road S.W. when it stopped quickly at the three-way stop at Allard Boulevard S.W., police said.
At the same time, the woman and her children were walking east across Allard Road S.W. in a marked crosswalk on the south side of the intersection, police said.
After making a brief stop, the truck reportedly turned left onto Allard Boulevard S.W. heading west, running over the boy and striking the mother and her daughter, police said.
The boy was dead by the time paramedics arrived at the scene.
The woman and her daughter were treated for non-life-threatening injuries but have since been released from hospital.
The 30-year-old man who was driving the truck remained at the scene. The man was not injured.
Charges are pending against the driver, police said. Collision investigators do not believe speed or alcohol were factors in the collision.
As of Friday morning, little evidence of the crash remained.
A small memorial of pink roses and peach iris flowers had been placed on the sidewalk, alongside a white candle.
The boy's death is the seventh fatal pedestrian collision this year in Edmonton, police said Friday.
Yogita Sharma, a mother of two who lives nearby and passes through the area regularly on her morning walks through the neighbourhood, was shocked to hear of the boy's death.
She said the intersection is often busy with traffic and risky for pedestrians to navigate.
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