Two-year-old girl dies after being struck by car outside West Yorkshire home as police launch probe
A TWO-year-old girl has died after being struck by a car outside a home in West Yorkshire.
Emergency services rushed to the address in Dewsbury at 10.13am this morning.
The little girl was to hospital in critical condition, but was pronounced dead shortly after.
A police spokesman said: "At 10.13am today, police were contacted by the ambulance service who were attending an incident in Millwater Avenue, in Dewsbury, where a child had been involved in a collision with a car outside an address.
"The child, a two-year-old girl, was taken to hospital in a critical condition and was pronounced dead a short time later. A scene is in place in Millwater Avenue.
"The incident is being treated as a sudden unexpected death in childhood and we ask that people consider the family and respect their privacy at what is clearly a very difficult time for them."