Drug and drink driving charges have been laid against a man arrested over a fatal collision with a 15-year-old boy riding a scooter in Darwin's northern suburbs.
NT Police said emergency services had responded to a collision between a car and a pedestrian riding a scooter across Matthews Road in the suburb of Wulagi at 7:00pm on Saturday night.
Witnesses at the scene started CPR on the boy but he died at the scene.
NT Police said the 32-year-old male driver of the car presented at the Casuarina Police Station a short time later.
He has been charged with hit and run, medium-range drink driving, driving with a prohibited drug in his blood and not stopping after a crash.
Police said the man was bailed to face court in early September.
