10-year-old boy dies after being hit near Fresno highway

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 10-year-old lad was deed and killed by a motortruck portion allegedly playing adjacent a road successful Downtown Fresno Sunday afternoon, the California Highway Patrol announced.

CHP reports conscionable aft 4 p.m., they responded to Highway 99 adjacent Ventura Street for a study of a idiosyncratic who was deed by a vehicle.

Officers accidental a motortruck was headed southbound connected Highway 99, taking the Ventura Street exit, when, allegedly, astir 10 kids were playing astir the accelerated lane of the off-ramp. Despite the driver's efforts to debar them, 1 kid was struck.

Investigators study CPR was administered to the kid connected country earlier helium was transported to a adjacent hospital, wherever helium was pronounced deceased. The lad has not been officially identified.

CHP is actively moving to find the circumstances that led up to the crash.