DREXEL, Mo. (AP) – Authorities in eastern Missouri are looking for a car they say was involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed a 15-year-old boy in a small town south of Kansas City.

KCTV reports that the State Highway Patrol said Gavin Kush of Drexel, Missouri, was walking in the northbound lanes of Route D when a maroon Hyundai hit him and threw him into a ditch.

Drexel is a town of about 950 people about 30 miles south of the Kansas City area along the Kansas border.

The car fled after hitting the boy. He was taken to a local hospital but died there.

The patrol said the car is missing a right side mirror and has a headlight out.

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CASS COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a fatal hit and run accident in Cass County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that just after 9p.m. Sunday, a maroon Hyundai hit a pedestrian identified as Gavin J. Kush, 15,  Drexel, as he was walking in the northbound lanes of Route D just south of Route OO.

The Hyundai fled the scene. Kush was transported to Cass Regional Medical Center where he died.