Detectives are investigating a fatal collision that occurred in Phoenix, leaving a juvenile male dead.
Just after 8:01 p.m., officers responded to a collision involving a juvenile pedestrian in the area of 36th Street and McDowell Road. As officers arrived on the scene, they located the juvenile male in critical condition. The Phoenix Fire Department arrived on the scene and rushed the juvenile to a nearby hospital, where he later died.
The adult female driver remained on the scene.
Detectives believe the juvenile was walking slightly ahead of his mother southbound in the crosswalk when he was struck by the vehicle.
Impairment is not suspected to be a factor in this incident.
“Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.” Exodus 23:20
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