Driver, 21, charged after 'massive tragedy' outside Burlington, Ont. school
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A driver has been charged a day after an eight-year-old girl was fatally struck by a vehicle after getting out of a car to attend a school concert in Burlington, Ont.
A driver has been charged a day after an eight-year-old girl was fatally struck by a vehicle after getting out of a car to attend a school concert in Burlington, Ont.
“Obviously, this is a massive tragedy and whole families will be impacted, our community is impacted by this and our officers as well,” Halton Regional Police Const. Ryan Anderson told reporters Thursday morning.
Becoming emotional at times, Anderson said a 21-year-old driver has now been charged with failing to remain at the scene of an accident after being taken into custody in the vicinity of the school. Police have not identified the person charged.
Police said the child was struck after she got out of her parent’s car in the school’s driveway and made her way to the east entrance doors. A white SUV exiting the lot struck the girl and then turned west onto Baldwin Street without stopping, police said.
The girl was rushed to McMaster Children’s Hospital, but did not survive.
Police were able to quickly locate the alleged driver of the vehicle with a witness tip about the license plate, and he has since been taken into custody.
