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Jack Duval |
‘ANGEL’ DIES AFTER BEING HIT BY A CAR
School mourns boy, 10, killed while playing out with friends
A PRIMARY school has been left in shock after one of its pupils was killed in a road crash tragedy.
Jack Duval, aged 10, was playing with two friends in Abbey Road, West Hampstead, just before he was hit by a car on Friday evening.
He was rushed to Great Ormond Street Hospital but died from his injuries on Saturday morning.
Jane Hunter, headteacher at Primrose Hill primary school, where Jack was a pupil, said: “We are all very shocked and saddened by his death. Jack had many friends. He was a very lively boy. The children are saying that this shouldn’t happen to a boy aged only 10.”
Ms Hunter said she informed her pupils in a series of assemblies, and spoke to the more fragile children individually.
She said: “We are planning a celebratory assembly where the pupils will read poems they have written about their memories of Jack.
“The children have told me Jack liked to wear hats, and he had a favourite hat at school. So we are having a hat sale on Friday to raise money for a permanent memorial for Jack. It will be a bench or a tree in the playground.”
Ms Hunter added: “Obviously our sympathies go out to his family and his mother. She was a volunteer at the school. She helped out at lunchtimes and with children on school trips.”
The school’s parents association has made plans to tie ribbons around a tree in the playground and release 400 balloons during the annual “Frost Fayre”, a special Christmas event on November 22.
Jack’s mother, who lives in Holborn, has already requested the event go ahead, despite the tragedy.
One parent said: “She does not want everyone to be unhappy. My heart goes out to her – especially with Christmas coming up.”
Police have appealed for witnesses to the incident as they try to piece together how it unfolded at around 8.30pm. Officers spoke to the driver of a black Citroen C3 at the scene. Witnesses said she was in a state of shock and could not be consoled.
A shrine built up this week at the spot where Jack died near the entrance to the Rowley Way estate in Abbey Road.
Dozens of cards and flower bouquets adorn a nearby lamppost paying tribute to a “young angel” and a “special boy”. A Tottenham Hotspur teddy bear lies alongside candles and a note from “his best friend Tommy”.
Shopkeeper Latif Mulolli, proprietor of Abbey Bottles in Abbey Road, said: “There were three of them playing outside my shop beforehand, running up and down the road. I heard a bang and then the screeching of brakes.
“Then I ran out and there was a woman in the car. She was sitting there and then lots of people ran over to the boy and then her in the car. They helped her out and she was wailing and screaming. She said she was a midwife at one of the hospitals. I don’t think she saw him.”
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