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Tributes to boy aged 9 killed in Ingleby Barwick crash
Jul 17 2011 by Coreena Ford, Sunday Sun
TRIBUTES have been paid to a nine-year-old boy who died in a horror smash on a housing estate.
The youngster was riding his pedal bike when it’s believed he collided with a car as he crossed a road in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside.
Residents battled to revive him before the Great North Air Ambulance arrived to take him to Middlesbrough’s James Cook Hospital.
Doctors couldn’t save him, however, and he died on Friday night.
Police have yet to officially name the boy, but he has been named locally as Brandon.
A woman who lives close by saw the aftermath of the collision, which happened at around 4.40pm on Friday in Roundhill Avenue.
She called the emergency services, saying the youngster’s mum and young sister arrived within minutes.
“A friend who is a nurse who lives nearby gave him mouth-to- mouth. It was a desperate struggle to try to save him,” she said.
“His mother was there soon afterwards, as was his little sister of about five or six. I called 999. The air ambulance arrived first, followed by the ambulance.”
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