Daleno Seekoei, a Comet Primary School learner, was rushed to the Sunward Park Hospital, where he later died.
The Advertiser spoke to his parents, Liezel Seekoei and Stefaans Olifant.
His sobbing mother said she had sent the boy across the road to his aunt’s place, to fetch a parcel.
His father, Stefaans, was lost for words when it came to describing the feeling of losing a son.
“Everybody who is a parent will know what we are going through – what state we are in,” he said.
DA Ward 32 branch chairperson Marius de Vos said he visited the family together with ward councillor Johan Hendricks, to pass on their condolences.
De Vos said a driver in a Ford Bantam bakkie hit the boy while he was crossing Commissioner Street.
“The driver has claimed that his sight was impaired by the rising sun, thus he couldn’t see the boy crossing the street right in front of the house where his parents live,” said de Vos.
He added that the impact was so severe that the boy landed about 30m from where the vehicle first hit him.
“According to a woman who witnessed the incident, the driver could only stop the vehicle about 60m from where the boy landed,” de Vos said, adding that the medical response units were quick on the accident scene and transported the child to hospital.
“I noticed, in the half an hour or so that I spent with the family on Friday, that speeding is a problem on that stretch of Commissioner Street,”.
“Hendricks has undertaken to bring it to the attention of the EMPD, to regulate speed in that area, as pedestrians are not safe.”
The family was still at the Boksburg SAPS when the Advertiser spoke to them this afternoon (February 15) and they said they have not yet figured out what charge is being investigated.
No one has been arrested and the EMPD had not yet commented at the time of going to print.
