Courtesy Newport Beach Police Department.
Courtesy Newport Beach Police Department.

An 8-year-old boy riding a bicycle was fatally injured in a collision with a trash truck Wednesday afternoon in Newport Beach.

The boy was struck about 1:30 p.m. on 15th Street between Irvine and Fullerton avenues near Newport Heights Elementary School, according to police Lt. Jeff Brouwer.

It was not immediately known if the boy was a student at the school.

The boy, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was pronounced dead at the scene, Brouwer said.

— Wire reports 

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