Minivan strikes, kills 1-year-old in Missouri driveway

LATHROP, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas toddler is dead after being struck by a minivan on the driveway of a rural Missouri home.

The Kansas City Star reports that 1-year-old Elijah Galloway of Overland Park, Kansas, was fatally struck Saturday evening on a private driveway east of the western Missouri town of Lathrop in rural Caldwell County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a 32-year-old woman struck the child, who was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Lathrop is 45 miles northeast of Kansas City, Missouri.

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Information from: The Kansas City Star, http://www.kcstar.com