Girl, 9, killed in mobility scooter crash

A girl has died in a mobility scooter accident that also left a young boy injured in Queensland.

Police say the girl was riding the scooter with the boy when it ran off a dirt road and crashed into a culvert at Laceys Creek, northwest of Brisbane, on Thursday afternoon.

The girl died at the scene.

The boy was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The forensic crash unit is investigating.