A nine-year-old boy is taken to hospital after being struck by a police car near St Leonards on Sydney’s lower north shore. Multiple outlets report the incident occurs on the Pacific Highway at around 7:20pm on Monday. The police vehicle is described as a marked car and is responding to reports of a fire at the time of the crash. Reports indicate the officer is driving in connection with the fire call when the boy is hit. The boy is rushed to hospital, though the available accounts do not provide details on the extent of his injuries or his condition. All sources identify the location as St Leonards and the age of the child as nine. The reports focus on the sequence of events linking the strike to the officer’s response to the fire call, with no agreed-upon details beyond that in the information provided.