{"id":420501,"date":"2026-01-18T04:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420501\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:31:09","slug":"four-year-old-boy-dies-after-car-crashes-into-mawson-shopping-centre-in-canberras-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420501\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-year-old boy dies after car crashes into Mawson shopping centre in Canberra&#8217;s south"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A four-year-old boy has died after being hit by a car at Mawson shopping centre in Canberra&#8217;s south.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police were called to the shopping centre at about 10.20am where they found a car had been driven into a shopfront.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">ACT Policing&#8217;s Inspector Nigel Booth said the boy, who was a pedestrian, was hit by the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A car crashed into a shopping centre with police tape. \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1a1459df0cc60435856e8f9380c0d3eb.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The car crashed into the Mawson shopping centre this morning.\u00a0 (ABC News: Matt Roberts)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services attended the scene and treated the boy before he was taken to Canberra Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Unfortunately, that young four-year-old boy has passed away,&#8221; Inspector Booth said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Inspector Booth said the driver remained in hospital and was helping police with their enquiries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police officer wearing a vest. \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c4c11fd7caf6ec7b7243d4891cc7bb38.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Inspector Nigel Booth says the driver of the car remains in hospital.\u00a0 (ABC News: Matt Roberts)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police are investigating the cause of the crash and a report will be prepared for the coroner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">They are urging anyone who witnessed the incident and has not already spoken to police to contact Crime Stoppers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The boy&#8217;s death is the second road fatality in the ACT this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A four-year-old boy has died after being hit by a car at Mawson shopping centre in Canberra&#8217;s south.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2666,64,63,17405,2667,1154,1300,11224,115597,75642,221439,44,2948],"class_list":["post-420501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-act","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boy","tag-canberra","tag-crash","tag-death","tag-fatal","tag-four-year-old","tag-killed","tag-mawson-shopping-centre","tag-news","tag-pedestrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}