An eight-year-old boy has died after being hit by a truck near a primary school near Mandurah, south of Perth this morning.
The crash happened around 8.30am on Minilya Parkway in Greenfields, near Riverside Primary School.
St John Ambulance rushed the child to Peel Health Campus, but he later died of his injuries.
WA Police said the boy was riding a bike when he was struck by a truck.
In a letter to parents, Riverside Primary School principal Peter Dunning said the year 3 student was a much-loved member of the community and would be greatly missed.
Students at the school have not been informed of the boy's death, but Mr Dunning said support services, including the school psychologist and chaplain, would be made available.
Onlookers rushed to help child
Witness Jeff Robson said he saw two people attend to the boy right away.
"I came about a minute after it happened, and there were two nurses or medical staff from the corner who went to him and checked his pulse and he didn't have a pulse," the man said.
"The two people, one got down and started on his heart, and one started mouth to mouth and they kept going until the ambulance turned up about three minutes later, so he was in a bad way.
"The push bike had been run over completely, we don't know but good chances are a car might've run over the boy. It didn't look good.
"He was lying on the road … [a] very little, small-framed [child]."
