YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – A Mississippi teenager was fatally struck by a vehicle on Thursday when he was crossing the road in York County, Pennsylvania, according to officials.

The York County Coroner’s office said in a report that Quinterrion Smith, 17, of Coffeeville, Mississippi, died at WellSpan Hospital the day after he was hit.

A Wednesday autopsy found Smith’s cause of death to be from multiple blunt force trauma and the manner was ruled accidental, the coroner’s office said.

When he tried to cross the road with a group of friends, in the area of Route 30 and North Hills Road just after 10 p.m., Smith was hit by a vehicle, the report reads. He was critically injured and rushed to the hospital where he then died.

Smith was traveling in the area with his basketball team, the coroner’s office said.

Springettsbury Township Police are investigating, and the driver is cooperating.

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