Kindergarten student and mom killed by school bus while walking to school in New York

A kindergarten student met a tragic end on Thursday after being hit by a school bus while he walked to school with his mom, the authorities revealed .

The unidentified boy, 6, and his mother were walking to Mamaroneck Avenue Elementary School when they were hit by a yellow minibus driven by a 68-year-old man who, according to Fox 5 reporter Linda Schmidt, was cooperating with the investigation into the incident.

The poor boy was killed, while his mother was rushed to the hospital for treatment, where she sadly later died.

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The crash happened just after 8:30 a.m. in the Westchester County village, which is about 30 miles north of downtown Manhattan. The Journal News reported that the crash happened less than half a block from the school.

The Journal News added that a Royal Coach Lines minibus was parked at the crash site with a yellow backpack just 20 feet behind it. The bus was later towed, and the backpack was removed from the scene and placed in a police vehicle.

"There is nothing more difficult for a community to experience than the loss of life, and we know that everyone in the Mamaroneck and Larchmont communities is heartbroken by this news," district officials wrote in the statement.

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The school district will reportedly make counseling for anyone impacted by the tragedy available on Friday. The Associated Press reached out to Royal Coach Lines, which is a regional bus contractor, for comment but did not immediately hear back.

The tragedy struck less than a week before the last day of school, which is on June 26. The district serves over 5,300 students across six schools — four elementary schools, a middle school and a high school. It has not released anything on its social media pages about the fatal crash yet.

Thursday's fatal crash comes just a month after a bus pileup on an interstate near Chicago left 11 children hospitalized after three school buses crashed into one another on the busy suburban highway.

Months before that, a horrific charter bus crash in Ohio left six dead, including three students, after the bus collided with a semitruck.