An eight-year-old schoolboy was knocked down and killed by a BMW driver racing another car.
Witnesses described how they saw two cars travelling very fast down Ryecroft Street in Ashton-under-Lyne just before the crash on Thursday, July 2020. One witness described how he thought the drivers, Kevin Jones, from Bebington and Thomas McGrath from Stockport, were treating the road as a “race-track”.
Another had shouted for the vehicles to “slow down” as they flew around the bend, after he felt they were travelling too fast – and too close to each other. The same witness reported a load bang before he saw a small child lying “motionless in the road.”
