12-year-old is hit by SUV in Lenexa and rushed to hospital; police investigate
Lenexa police were investigating after a 12-year-old girl was injured by an SUV Wednesday afternoon.
Police were called to the scene in the 9000 block of Lackman Road about 3:20 p.m.
Officer Danny Chavez, a police spokesman, said the girl was crossing Lackman Road in the crosswalk when the crash happened.
Police said the girl was taken to a hospital by paramedics.
The child’s medical condition was not immediately available, but police later said she was conscious and alert at the hospital.
The driver of the SUV stayed at the scene after the crash.
Lackman Road was closed to traffic for more than two hours while police investigated.
It happened near the Country Hill neighborhood.
One resident in the neighborhood, Trevor Blaylock, said he didn’t see what happened, but said children cross Lackman Road every day for school. Sunflower Elementary is less than a mile away.
Blaylock described Lackman as a “fairly busy” road. Even with a crosswalk at the intersection where the crash occurred, he said pedestrians should be careful and drivers need to “pay attention to what they’re doing.”
As a parent of two sons in fourth grade and seventh grade, Blaylock said he planned on having a conversation with his children on what happened.
Police said they were still investigating Wednesday night what led up to the crash.
This story was originally published April 3, 2019 at 4:25 PM.
