Boy, 4, dies after being struck by car on Higginson Highway
POLICE are investigating a case of culpable homicide after a 4-year-old boy was run over by a bakkie while crossing Higginson Highway in Chatsworth over the weekend.
KZN Police spokesperson Thenjiswa Ngcobo said it is alleged that the child was with an adult when he tried to run across the road on July 8,.
“He was hit by a vehicle and was declared dead on the scene.”
Ngcobo said Chatsworth police were investigating a case of culpable homicide.
PT Alarms said: “This Saturday was marred by tragedy when a 4-year-old boy was fatally rammed while crossing the Higginson Highway in the vicinity of the Chatsglen Railway station, with his mother, earlier today.”
The company said the PT Ambulance Service and response units rushed to the scene.
The child was declared deceased. The mother was uninjured but in a state of shock. PT Alarms offers condolences to the bereaved family. May the soul of the little boy rest in peace, PT Alarms said.
The company said the police were on the scene and would investigate.
In an unrelated incident this year, a father was killed when he tried to save his child from being run over by a car.
At the time of the incident, ALS Paramedics Medical Services spokesperson Garrith Jamieson said a father was killed and his child injured after an accident on Kenyon Howden Road in Montclair.
Jamieson said it is believed that the father, in his thirties, was trying to save his child from being struck by a motor vehicle.
Paramedics tried to resuscitate the man but he was declared deceased at the scene.
Jamieson said the child, believed to be two-years-old, was moderably injured and was stabilised on the scene before being transported to hospital.
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