Family grieving after 8-year-old dies falling from car in Perth Hills

A Perth Hills family is grieving aft an eight-year-old boy fell from a moving car and died.

9News understands his siblings and begetter were besides successful nan car arsenic it drove on a gravel roadworthy successful Mount Helena, astir 40 kilometres eastbound of Perth, astir 4pm (6pm AEST) yesterday.

Major crash investigators are trying to activity retired precisely really nan mishap unfolded. 

The kid suffered superior injuries and was taken to a adjacent home, wherever he was met by emergency services. 

St John Ambulance rushed him to hospital, but he couldn't beryllium saved. Today, nan constabulary commissioner was asked if nan incident was being treated arsenic suspicious.

Police Commissioner Col Blanch said it was a "terrible, terribly sad story".

Asked whether nan decease was truthful suspicious he said it was excessively early to show for certain.

"I don't judge truthful [based on] early indications but let's support an unfastened mind," he said.

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