A two-year-old boy has died following a hit-and-run collision on Rabelais Street, in a residential neighbourhood in the South Shore community of Saint-Constant.
Police received an emergency call at around 9 a.m. ET Saturday, after the toddler was found unconscious on the street.
Michel Leblanc, a spokesperson for the Régie intermunicipale de police Roussillon, said the child was rushed to hospital where he later died of his injuries.
Police said they believe the child escaped his parents’ attention and got out of the backyard where he’d been playing.
The boy’s mother and his six-year-old sibling were also taken to hospital to be treated for shock.
Leblanc told Global News there have been no arrests, and officers are currently interviewing witnesses.
A description of the vehicle has yet to be released.
Collision experts with the Sûreté du Québec are assisting local police in the investigation.
— With files from the Canadian Press