A ten-year-old girl died af­ter a car struck her along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as Gab­ri­na Nero, of Ma­coya Gar­dens.

She was a Stan­dard Four pupil, at the St Joseph Gov­ern­ment School.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 11 am she was at­tempt­ing to cross the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route in a souther­ly di­rec­tion when she was hit by an on­com­ing blue Hyundai Ac­cent.

Po­lice said, eye­wit­ness­es, told them that she was thrown about 20 feet from the site of im­pact.

The girl was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal, how­ev­er, she suc­cumbed to her in­juries while un­der­go­ing treat­ment. (RDR)