Charges laid in south Edmonton pedestrian collision that killed 3-year-old boy

Edmonton constabulary person laid charges successful a fatal pedestrian collision connected nan city’s southbound side that near a three-year-old boy dead.

The collision happened conscionable aft 5 p.m. connected June 27 successful nan Allard neighbourhood. Police said a pickup motortruck was heading northbound connected Allard Road Southwest erstwhile it stopped quickly astatine nan three-way extremity astatine Allard Boulevard Southwest.

A 39-year-old female and her 2 young children, a three-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl, were crossing Allard Road successful a marked crosswalk erstwhile they were struck by nan turning truck. Police said nan boy was tally complete and nan mother and girl were hit.

The boy died astatine nan scene. The mother and woman were taken to infirmary pinch non-life-threatening injuries.

The 30-year-old man driving nan motortruck stayed astatine nan scene. He did not study immoderate injuries, according to police. At nan time, constabulary said velocity and intoxicant were not believed to beryllium factors successful nan collision.

In a news merchandise Monday morning, constabulary said Zhaobo Wu, 30, was charged connected Saturday pinch sloppy driving and 3 counts of failing to output to a pedestrian nether nan Traffic Safety Act.

The City of Edmonton said it will do its ain investigation by measurement of a tract review, to spot if immoderate changes would beryllium made to make nan intersection safer. There is nary timeline for nan completion of that review.