Youth struck by car in Kansas City dies days later in hospital: Police
A teenage minor who was struck by a car while crossing a busy Kansas City street in front of a KCATA bus has died, according to police.
Sgt. Jake Becchina, a Kansas City Police Department spokesman, said in an email that investigators were notified of the death by hospital staff Thursday. The teenager’s identity was not immediately released by police.
Shortly before 5 p.m. on June 11, police officers were dispatched to East 63rd Street and The Paseo on a reported injury crash.
Crash investigators determined that the teenager got off a KCATA bus and ran in front of the bus across the westbound lanes of East 63rd Street.
A Volkswagen Jetta passed the bus, traveling through a green traffic signal, and struck the teenager, who went into the windshield and then fell to the pavement in the middle of the intersection, police said.
The death marks Kansas City’s 48th traffic fatality of 2023, according to police. There were 50 traffic fatalities in the city during the same timeframe in 2022.
