{"id":463915,"date":"2026-03-08T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463915\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:01:13","slug":"hunt-for-driver-after-girl-five-hit-by-car-in-kilmarnock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463915\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt for driver after girl, five, hit by car in Kilmarnock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing to trace a motorist who left the scene after a five-year-old girl was struck by a car in Kilmarnock.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster was hit by a vehicle on Grassyards Road at the front gate of Kilmarnock Cemetery at around 11.20am on Saturday March 7.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to hospital for treatment. Her condition is not known.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a blue car initially stopped at the scene but left before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Gordon Stewart said: \u201cOur enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances and we are keen to trace the driver involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am appealing for anyone who witnessed the crash and hasn\u2019t already spoken to officers to contact us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would also ask anyone who was in the area and who may have dash cam or private CCTV that could assist to get in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to contact 101 quoting reference 1254 of 7 March, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing to trace a motorist who left the scene after a five-year-old girl was struck by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-463915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}