A 7-year-old boy was taken to the hospital Monday evening after an 11-year-old boy struck him with a car in Southeast D.C
D.C. police said that the crash took place in a parking lot on Mississippi Avenue SE, just before 7 p.m.
The victim was taken to the hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.
“Detectives discovered that the driver of the vehicle was an 11-year-old juvenile male, who was unable to press the brake and stop the vehicle before striking the victim,” police said in a news release.
Several reports said that the 2020 silver Kia sedan was stolen and the underage driver fled the scene.