An eight-year-old girl has died after she and her mother were struck by a driver in Oakville on Thursday afternoon.

Emergency crews responded to reports of two pedestrians struck on North Service Road West, west of Lindsay Drive , shortly before 4 p.m., Halton police said in news release late Thursday night.

A man from Oakville was driving a Lexus SUV westbound on North Service Road when the vehicle left the road and struck the 39-year-old woman and her daughter, investigators said.

Both victims were taken to a local hospital before being transferred to trauma centres. “Despite lifesaving efforts, the child died of her injuries,” officers said in the news release.

The 47-year-old driver, who remained at the scene, was arrested and charged with dangerous operation of a conveyance c

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