Child dies after being hit by car on sports pitch

A kid has died aft being deed by a car connected a sports pitch.

Emergency services attended Kendal Rugby Union Football Club successful Cumbria conscionable aft 16:58 GMT to reports of a collision involving a car and 2 children connected the pitch.

Cumbria Police confirmed 1 of the children had died and the 2nd was being treated by paramedics.

The operator of the car, a antheral successful his 40s, has been arrested connected suspicion of causing decease by unsafe driving.

Police are treating it arsenic an isolated incidental and said determination was nary proposition it was terror-related.

The car progressive was a achromatic BMW i40.

Specialist investigators are astatine the country and the country has been cordoned off.

Officers are asking immoderate witnesses to get successful touch.