A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy has died a day after being hit by a train in country Victoria.
The boy and a four-year-old friend were playing in a backyard in Wallace, west of Melbourne, when they wandered out of the yard to the railway tracks and were clipped by a Ballarat-bound passenger train on Monday.
The boy was flown to the Royal Children’s Hospital, with critical head, chest and abdominal injuries, but died yesterday afternoon.
The girl remains stable after receiving a head injury and a cut to her leg.
V/Line spokesman James Kelly said the train was likely to have been travelling at between 110km/h and 130km/h when it hit the children near a railway crossing about 11.20am (AEDT).
V/Line said its inquiries had found that the driver — who has been treated for shock — was not to blame for the accident and there was nothing the authority could have done to prevent it.