Overview
- Emergency services were called to Southlands Shopping Centre in Mawson about 10:20am Sunday after reports a vehicle had driven into a store.
- Officers found the child, a pedestrian, had been struck, and he later died at Canberra Hospital after emergency treatment.
- The driver was taken to hospital for observation and is assisting police with inquiries.
- ACT Road Policing’s Major Collision Team is examining the circumstances and will prepare a report for the Coroner.
- Police urged anyone who witnessed the incident to contact Crime Stoppers ACT, and the death was recorded as the territory’s second road fatality of 2026.