Overview
- A four-year-old child was struck by a black Range Rover while reported to be crossing Nelson Road in Gillingham; emergency crews attended and the child was taken to a London hospital with serious injuries.
- Kent Police’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit treated the incident as a serious collision and temporarily closed the road while investigators worked at the scene.
- The force has launched an active appeal for witnesses and dashcam recordings to support the inquiry and to clarify the sequence of events that led to the collision.
- Anyone with information is asked to call the SCIU appeal line, email sciu.td@kent.police.uk, or upload footage to the police evidence portal quoting reference XX/KA/051/26.
- The driver or occupant of the Range Rover has not been identified in public reports and police enquiries are ongoing as investigators piece together evidence and next steps.