Sydney teenager hit by truck while stepping off bus dies in hospital

A teenage boy has died after being struck by a truck as he stepped off his school bus.

The 13-year-old boy had just got off the bus in Appin, in Sydney’s southwest, at 3.30pm on Wednesday last week when he was hit at.

Paramedics treated the boy, who had a fractured skull, at the scene before taking him to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in a critical condition.

There, he was placed in an induced coma but later died.

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NSW Police today confirmed the news.

The 38-year-old man behind the wheel of the truck was uninjured and underwent mandatory testing at Cambelltown Hospital.

Investigations into the incident have continued.

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