A 13-year-old boy was killed after being hit by a car on Chicago's South Side Thursday at around 6:20 p.m.
The collision was reported by CBS News Chicago, which said the boy was hit by a car. The boy was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital and pronounced dead there. The station did not specify the boy's exact location or whether the driver remained at the scene.
No information has been released about whether police cited or arrested anyone in connection with the crash, and no official account from the Chicago Police Department or a hospital has been made public.
A Pattern of Fatal Crashes Involving Young Chicagoans
The incident follows a string of crashes this year in which drivers have struck children and teenagers on Chicago streets. On March 21, a hit-and-run driver struck and killed 15-year-old Violet Harris while she rode an e-scooter in South Shore, according to Streetsblog Chicago.
Fifteen days later, on April 5, a speeding SUV driver ran a red light and fatally struck 18-year-old Damian Gomez as he rode his bike at 63rd Street and Kedzie Avenue in Chicago Lawn, the outlet reported. On April 24, a Jeep driver struck and killed 17-year-old e-scooter rider Astrid Carrillo Noguera near 3340 South King Drive in Douglas — the same report noted Carrillo Noguera was the third teenager killed while riding an e-scooter or bicycle on the South Side so far this year. Streetsblog's reporting on that cluster of incidents counted at least five recent cases of drivers fatally striking pedestrians or an e-scooter rider on the city's streets.
More Deaths Followed Over the Summer
The toll continued through the summer. A hit-and-run driver fatally struck a 42-year-old woman as she crossed South Ashland Avenue in Auburn Gresham on June 6, the same outlet's reporting found. On July 2, a 24-year-old driving a large Jeep was speeding north on South Pulaski Road in West Lawn, failed to yield while attempting to turn, and fatally struck a 71-year-old man, per the same account.
Streetsblog's reporting noted that the most recent Chicago Department of Transportation Monthly Fatal Crash Summary available covered July 2026, and separately pointed to Western Avenue as a particular hotspot, with three pedestrian deaths and one e-scooter death recorded on that corridor so far in 2026.
Research cited by the City of Chicago has suggested that survival odds for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle fall sharply as vehicle speed increases, while research has suggested that urban pedestrian-crash incidence declined over time for children and that injuries were less severe for children than for adults.
No further details about Thursday's crash involving the 13-year-old boy have been released, and it remains unclear how the collision occurred or what, if anything, investigators have determined about the driver.
