Xavier Luckey, 6, dies when struck by car on Livingston Road SE in Washington, D.C.
Boy, 6, was trying to cross road when fatally struck by car, D.C. police say
There is no crosswalk on that stretch of the road, which runs between a line of three-story apartment buildings and a wooded area and a stream at the southern tip of the District. The boy was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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