Minivan Strikes, Kills 1-Year-Old in Missouri Driveway

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.