An 8-year-old girl is dead and a driver is charged after a Lexus SUV veered off the road in Oakville and hit the child and her mother.

Halton Regional Police say the incident happened Thursday around 3:50 p.m. on North Service Rd. W.

In a news release, police said that the Lexus — being driven by a 47-year-old Oakville man — was travelling westbound on North Service Rd. W., west of Lindsay Dr., “when it left the roadway on the north side and struck a 39-year-old female pedestrian and her 8-year-old daughter.”

The mom and girl were initially taken to a local hospital before being transferred to trauma centres. Police said, “despite lifesaving efforts, the child died of her injuries.”

Halton Regional Police Service’s Collision Reconstruction Unit has taken charge of the investigation.

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