BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A young boy is dead following a car wreck in Brooklyn on Wednesday.

It happened on Seaview Avenue near East 80th Street in Canarsie just after 4 p.m. 

Police say a 44-year-old woman was speeding in a Toyota Highlander with six-year-old Jerry Louisamard inside the car.

That's when they say she hit a parked car, which then struck another parked car.

Both the driver and the boy were taken to the hospital where the child died. 

The woman is expected to be okay.

An investigation is ongoing.