Four-year-old boy killed after car crashes into Canberra shopping centre
A four-year-old boy has died after a car crashed into a store front at a shopping center in Canberra’s south.
Emergency services were called to Southlands Shopping Center in Mawson at around 10.20am on Sunday after reports of a vehicle entering a store.
ACT Police Inspector Nigel Booth said officers discovered the boy, who was a pedestrian, had been struck by a car.
Emergency services responded at the scene before taking the child to Canberra Hospital in a critical condition.
Police announced that he was pronounced dead a short time later.
The driver of the vehicle was taken to hospital and remained under observation.
ACT Road Police’s Major Collision Team is investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash, the ACT’s second road traffic fatality of 2026, and a report will be prepared for the Coroner.
Police are urging anyone who witnessed the incident and has not yet spoken to officers to contact Crime Stoppers ACT.
