A four-year-old boy died when he slipped from his mum's hand and ran into the road in front of a car doing 40 miles per hour as he was "excited to get home for KFC". Agarwin Sasikaran was at a pelican crossing with his mum and six-year-old brother when, after his mother let go of his hand to press the button, he darted into the road, a hearing was told.
Aklaya Sasikaran, the boy's mother, broke her finger trying to grab her son before he was struck by the Vauxhall Astra, the inquest heard. The collision happened at around 7pm on Sunday October 11, 2020, on Uxbridge Road, in Hayes, west London.
Agarwin suffered "catastrophic injuries" around his head and torso and never recovered consciousness, the inquest was told. Stacy Woolmore, the driver who was within the speed limit, reacted within one second of the boy shooting into the road by immediately swerving left in a bid to avoid the crash.
