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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Charlotte Hadfield & Stephen Topping

Six-year-old boy killed in front of his mum on her birthday

A mum's pain of watching her son die in front of her on her birthday all came back as she saw the aftermath of a crash last week. Bobby Colleran was just six years old when he died after being hit by a van in October 2014.

Ahead of the eight-year anniversary of the tragedy, his mum Joanne insists the grief does not get any easier with time. It all came back to the 43-year-old as she saw a teenage boy had been knocked off his electric bike by a car in Liverpool last Tuesday (September 20).

The incident in West Derby left the youngster with a serious head injury and he was rushed to hospital, the Liverpool Echo reports. Joanne, who had been dropping her other three sons off at school, said: "It's bizarre because we were just there as it had happened but your whole inside turns over.

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