Boy, three, dies after car strikes him and his mum on the pavement
A BOY of three has died after becoming trapped under a car that mounted the pavement.
The child and a 37-year-old woman thought to be his mother were taken to hospital after being hit by a red Kia in Edinburgh yesterday.
The boy died in hospital after the incident next to St Columba’s Hospice charity shop, on Morningside Road, at around 2.30pm.
Firefighters and police officers blocked off the road in both directions in the wake of the crash.
Kelly Louise Dickson, 39, from Penicuik, Midlothian, who witnessed the collision, said it had left her shaken. She added: ‘It makes me feel sick. Seeing the car still there, all I can think about is that baby.
She described how the child was ‘trapped between the car and the corner’. She said: ‘I called out for a man to help and then I just grabbed the mother.
‘The mother was shaking and I held her and she gripped me back. It was horrible to see. They were just walking down the street.’
One local resident said: ‘There were people screaming. It was obvious that the car had mounted the pavement and hit pedestrians. People were comforting others. They were very upset. It was a horrible thing to have witnessed.’
Zulfu Vural told the Edinburgh Evening News: ‘I ran up because it happened right outside my brother’s business. I
‘Absolutely tragic incident’
then saw a child on the ground surrounded by paramedics.’
Another witness said the boy ‘appeared to be partially under the car’, adding: ‘The other party was a female who appeared to be the child’s mother. She had cuts to her arm and face and was bleeding. The driver was an elderly woman.
‘A nurse and a pharmacist from a local pharmacy got to the accident before the ambulance arrived.’
Police were unable to give details on the condition of the driver.
Inspector Roger Park of Edinburgh Road Policing Unit said: ‘The heartfelt thoughts of my colleagues and I remain with the families involved in this absolutely tragic incident.
‘We are providing support to the family. Our inquiries will continue to establish the full circumstances of the collision.’