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4-year-old dies after being hit by car in Kingman

Updated July 14, 2017 - 12:36 pm

KINGMAN, Arizona — A child on a scooter was killed after being struck by a vehicle in Kingman on Thursday afternoon.

The collision occurred at 3:45 p.m. in the 2500 block of Georgia Avenue, said Rusty Cooper, deputy police chief of the Kingman Police Department.

Cooper said Dustyn Thomas Carley, 4, was on a kick scooter. He entered the roadway from between two parked vehicles and into the path of an oncoming vehicle driven by a 39-year old man who lived nearby.

He said the child was taken to Kingman Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

Cooper said impairment was not believed to be a factor.

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