An autopsy is scheduled today for a toddler who was struck by a vehicle in a Belleville parking lot.

Police say the two-and-a-half-year-old boy was hit just after 8 p.m. Tuesday while playing in the lot of an apartment building on Union Street.

They say the driver, a 41-year-old man, was trying to park.

The boy was taken to hospital, where he died.

No names have been released.