Young boy killed in van crash on residential road in Dorset

Cutler Place is a mostly residential road with a few schools and nurseries (Picture: Google Maps)

A young boy has died after being hit by a van in Wimborne, Dorset.

The child, a pedestrian, was hit by a Ford Transit van on Cutler Place in Colehill, near the junction with Middlehill Road, this afternoon.

He was given CPR at the scene but was declared dead soon after police were first called at 1.54pm.

His family have been informed.

A witness saw an air ambulance and ‘a lot of emergency services vehicles’...